Re: Moving "sub" libraries to their own repositories

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-03-08 20:18:37

On Mar 8, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Glen Fernandes via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> We have (very) few cases where within a repository we have more than one
> library inside a repository. One example is boostorg/functional whose
> meta/libraries.json has:
> 
> - functional
> - functional/factory
> - functional/forward
> - functional/overloaded_function
> 
> See: https://github.com/boostorg/functional/blob/master/meta/libraries.json
> 
> What do we think about having separate repositories for the last three
> above? e.g.  The second one would be boostorg/functional_factory
> 
> Some might be better collapsed into the first library (i.e. become part of
> just "functional").
> 
> We haven't been allowing this for newer libraries, but it would be nice to
> remove it from these few existing cases too.
> 
> Ultimately meta/libraries.json in each library repository would have just
> one  library entry.

Boost/numeric is another such library

% ls $BOOST/libs/numeric
conversion	index.html	odeint		ublas
doc		interval	sublibs

% find . -name sublibs 
./spirit/sublibs
./chrono/sublibs
./gil/sublibs
./algorithm/sublibs
./numeric/sublibs
./geometry/sublibs
./functional/sublibs
./utility/sublibs

— Marshall