On 21 February 2017 at 13:29, Paul A. Bristow via Boost
From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Bo Persson via Boost Sent: 21 February 2017 10:17
[...] Even if we know how to do it, we might not want to.
Usually on Windows you click on Setup.exe and get a list of options on what you can install. You can see what is available, and select the parts you want.
That is a lot easier, and more confortable, than reading some documentation to try to come up with an incantation like
b2 toolset=msvc-12.0,msvc-14.0
Some of us think that C:\> on a black background perhaps isn't the ultimate user experience.
So are you offering to build a GUI that will output the necessary command line after choosing from the myriad of options? Doesn't sound rocket-science for those that know about these things? GSoC task?
FYI, some time ago I developed a (working!) prototype of Boost.Build support for Qt Creator Among number of features, it does exactly that - fills the b2 command line with options. For example, to distinguish build vs clean target, debug vs release configuration build, etc. https://github.com/mloskot/qt-creator-plugin-boostbuild/ Perhaps some GSoC'ers would be interested to pick it up and move forward. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net