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Beware! At a previous job, Boost Build was easily one of the most unpopular aspects of the tech stack. It had 5% of people evangelizing it, and they were also t
by LVB 8y ago
Beware! At a previous job, Boost Build was easily one of the most unpopular aspects of the tech stack. It had 5% of people evangelizing it, and they were also the only ones who “got” the complicated Jam file arrangement. The rest of us couldn’t stand it. Just way too abstruse IMHO.
- slavik81 8y agoI used Boost Build for years, but I never figured out how to do anything but copy/paste our existing build files. I found scraps of documentation on Jam here and there, but it never made much sense when I looked at our code. I later discovered CMake and found it much, much easier to learn. On an unrelated note, the best comment I have ever come across is related to Boost Build: https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded/blob/fabd8e6d07d3cd0cc93c2a0fc804f8c8f316c649/recipes/boost/boost-with-bjam.inc#L87 https://github.com/openembedded/openembedded/blob/fabd8e6d07...