On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 15:11 -0400, Ryan Leavengood wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > OK, so the next question is then: would it not make sense to add the > > Jamfile-engine then to the "Development Tools" links in the Development > > page of the website? > > Well the Jamfile-engine is more for developing Haiku applications, > which at this point are pretty rare since Haiku itself is still in > development. But yes, at some point it would make sense to make the > Jamfile-engine more freely available, but as I said before it has some > bugs and could probably be greatly revamped based on what Ingo has > learned in creating the Haiku build system on top of Jam. I wrote it > about 5 years ago in the very early days of the project, and in fact > it was written on BeOS and for use in BeOS. Though it may work out of > the box on Haiku. Perfectly understood now. Thanks for the explanation (to Rene on IRC too), and sorry for the noise. :) Cheers, Koki