[Tooling] Tooling experience? (was Re: Proposed mission)

Rene Rivera grafikrobot at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 19:29:33 CEST 2018


On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Titus Winters <titus at google.com> wrote:

> There's been some general pushback on "macros and preprocessor things make
> various types of tools impossible to deploy."  My question is aimed mostly
> at that: do we have evidence of that? Or is it just intuition?
>

Ah, yes.. In that respect macros make build systems life very difficult. As
it totally kills any hope of determining binary compatibility. Boost Build
totally ignores them in that respect. And it becomes a problem for the user
to deal with. Which in turn propagates to package managers as consumers of
the build system products.

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