I also want to be able to pick my own build (etc.) tools, not in addition to Boost.Build, but instead of it. I understand that right now that's not supported, which is why I'm writing this proposal. What would it take for Boost to support individual libraries to be built with anything else ? What requirements would that "anything" have to meet, and how would it interact with the existing infrastructure to work ? Is that such a strange request ?
Absolutely anything at all? You cannot do integration testing if every library uses something different. You can't even do a single build and install everything. IMO there does have to be a common build system for that stuff (whatever that may be), if authors want to ship with some other build system as well, then that's just fine too. John. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com