[boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost

Subject: [boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-09 13:05:29

I'm revisiting
 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModDev
 
to try set up a new library.
 
I've started by trying to use the simple 'library' I created over a year ago using a previous
version of this document.
 
Is it intended that users should place their 'Boost-Wannabe' libraries in the modular-boost in
/libs/mylibrary as other real Boost libraries ?  When I assumed this, I found it impossible to GIT
clone my existing 'simple' library into the /libs folder as it is not empty, so the 2nd line
 
  git clone  <mailto:git_at_[hidden]:Beman/simple.git> git_at_[hidden]:Beman/simple.git
 
fails.
 
This feels the right place for 
 
Or is recommended to use some folder like sandbox/libs/mylibrary/ for one's stuff, including of
course a 
 
  sandbox/libs/mylibrary/include/boost/mylibrary/
 
to hold my .hpp files?
 
Either way I presume I need a link from modular-boost/boost to point to
sandbox/libs/mylibrary/include/  
 
Should I provide a symbolic link /D or a hardlink (as b2 headers creates)?
 
C:\Windows\system32>mklink /D I:\modular-boost\boost\ mylibrary I:\sandbox\libs\ mylibrary
\include\boost\ mylibrary
symbolic link created for I:\modular-boost\boost\ mylibrary <<===>> I:\sandbox\libs\ mylibrary
\include\boost\ mylibrary
 
seems to work.
 
Or do I add this folder to the Include directory list?  (Tiresome)
 
Suggestions?
 
Paul
 
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