[jamming] Automatic creation of target directories

[Ingo Weinhold]

On 2007-05-10 at 13:40:19 [+0200], Alen Ladavac <alenl-ml at croteam.com> 
wrote:
> Ingo wrote:
> > Since you have to locate your targets anyway, why don't you use 
> > MakeLocate,
> > which also invokes MkDir?
> 
> Interesting notion. As we moved from the traditional approach where
> each file is refered to only by its name, to a rooted tree for all
> files in the workspace, and referring to them by full path, we dropped
> MakeLocate along the way, because it didn't work.

In my experience it's not a wise decision to use paths (be they relative or 
absolute) in jam for anything but directories (which is probably also why 
there's a FDirName rule, but no FFileName). Grist works well for avoiding 
name clashes, and referring to targets independently of their location is 
one of the coolest of jam's features, IMHO.

CU, Ingo