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<h1>Boost Build Development Plan</h1>
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<b>Milestone 2</b> (October 25, 2002)
<p>Boost buildable with gcc and also usable as part of another
project.</p>
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<b>Milestone 3</b> (May 21, 2003)
<p>Two gcc versions and two other compilers are supported. Some other
tools (e.g. lex and BoostBook) are implemented.</p>
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<b>Milestone 4</b> (June 18, 2003)
<p>More tools implemented.</p>
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<b>Milestone 5</b> (Jule 2, 2003)
<p>Improvements and bugfixes with dependency scanning. Support for
i18n tools. Testing framework for Boost.</p>
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<b>Milestone 6</b> (Jule 22, 2003)
<p>Bugfixes.</p>
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<b>Milestone 7</b> (Aug 1, 2003)
<p>Optimizations.</p>
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<b>Milestone 8</b> (Oct 15, 2003)
<p>Implementation of regression testing framework was
implemented. Handling of dependencies to generated headers was
optimized. Algorithms for link-compatibility checking and selecting
main target alternatives were improved.</p>
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<b>Milestone 9.1</b> (Nov 06, 2003)
<p>Performance was considerably improved. The syntax for linking a
library into a library was simplified. The 'stage' rule can traverse
dependencies of the targets it installs. Regression testing support
now works on Windows. Some toolsets were improved. Bugs in project
loading and suffix determination were fixed.
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<b>Milestone 10</b> (TBD)
<p>Remaining features for <a href="http://boost.org">C++ Boost</a>:
improved installation, Python support. Uniform toolset initialization
scheme. Many bugfixes</p>
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<b>Alpha</b> (TBD)
<p>Optimization. Using buildable tools: consider using bison, which
is itself built with Boost.Build.</p>
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<li>
<b>Beta</b> (TBD)
<p>Feature-complete milestone.</p>
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<li>
<b>2.0 Release</b> (TBD)
<p>Bugfixes</p>
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