[openbeos] Re: haiku.image with developer tools and co

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

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