On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan@seefeld.name> wrote:

On 08/05/15 12:27 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:Why

doesn't it boil down to simply two:

* integrated: having the full boost source tree (no matter how you got it !)
* stand-alone: having only the library's source tree you are actually
interested in

In other words, why does it even matter how we get hold of a source tree
? Why is the layout of a source tree different depending on whether I
checkout via git, download a source tarball, etc.) ? Wouldn't it make
sense to first try to consolidate on a single layout, before adding
complicated build logic to deal with all those differences ?

That would be wonderful :-) But I guess the question is.. How can we reduce the number of cases? Do we make the release tar balls mirror "exactly" the git checkout?