Peter Dimov

Should --abbreviate-paths be made default under Windows?

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With https://github.com/boostorg/boost/pull/894 being merged, paths now acquire the additional `address-model-64/architecture-x86/`, which means increased probability of hitting the dreaded Windows path length limit. Is there a downside of making --abbreviate-paths on...

lzma.jam doesn't support building from source, like zlib.jam and bzip2.jam

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Would it make sense for lzma.jam to also support building from source?

Would it make sense for zstd.jam to support building from source? Also, zstd.jam is missing a documentation comment block.

<address-model> requirements don't seem to work outside the Boost root

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When preparing the minimal repro for https://github.com/bfgroup/b2/issues/107, I noticed that `64` and `32` requirements don't seem to work outside the Boost Jamroot. My original `openssl` configuration was ``` using openssl...

Add `name` to base class descriptors

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The macros receive it, and the reflection TS also provides it.

Support for constructors

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`BOOST_DESCRIBE_CONSTRUCTORS(X, (int), (float, float), (X const&), (X&&))`, `mod_constructor`. At the moment the workaround is https://godbolt.org/z/TxYKs5Wfr, but it would be better to support this natively.

LWT should support wide strings in BOOST_TEST_EQ

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Outputting wide strings to `std::cout` outputs the `void*` under C++ before 20, and hits a deleted `op