[jamming] Majam - keeping jam up-to-date

[Andrew McCall]

On 01/08/06, Alen Ladavac <alenl-ml at croteam.com> wrote:
> > - Currently Jam is about 15kLOC, you probably want to keep it from growing
> > too much, or even try to prune it back slightly.
>
> I believe that there is no reason to add much code, as most of the
> changes are more of tweaks than big additions. Where I'd find trimming
> most simple would perhaps be legacy system support. But perhaps I'm
> biased. It would be interesting to know whether other people need
> support for VMS and similar. I'd find only NT and *nix (OSX included)
> as useful as a build _host_ nowadays. Build targets can be whatever,
> but I don't imagine using anything else as a host.

I am pretty sure BeOS and Haiku count as *NIX hosts, but remember that
Haiku (http://www.haiku-os.org), the BeOS re-write uses Jam for its
build system.  So its not just NT and *NIX hosts that are needed.

This makes me me wonder what other products use jam that people are
not aware of.

Perhaps a better idea would be to ask for maintainers for each
platform, if one steps forward then the platform stays.

-- 
Thanks,

Andrew McCall
andrew.mccall at gmail.com