Re: In 1.88.0, BCP creates project that doesn't build

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2025-04-28 15:43:30

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM John Maddock via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 28/04/2025 13:41, Дмитрий Архипов via Boost wrote:
> > пн, 28 апр. 2025 г. в 15:17, Andrey Semashev via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]>:
> >> I'm not sure if bcp itself supports modular b2. Specifically, I don't
> >> see where it copies the <library>/build.jam files.
> > No, it doesn't. I have a PR (https://github.com/boostorg/bcp/pull/23)
> > that fixes that to a degree, but it seems to create other problems
> > judging by the CI failure. I didn't have any prior BCP knowledge, and
> > it fixed the specific problem that inspired me to write the PR (the
> > problem was reported on Boost users' list, IIRC), so I never got to
> > finish it.
>
> I'll try and take a look when I get a chance.
>
> However, I get the impression that bcp is used by increasingly fewer
> people... now that we have modular CMake and Boost.Build, do we still
> need it?
>

The main use case these days appears to be to change the boost namespace.
Which is something that is not resolved by the modular changes. Maybe
there's some other way to support that use case? And by that I mean.. Maybe
there's some not-Boost tool out there that does that. As it seems like a
general C++ thing.

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