Re: [Boost-cmake] CMake modularization update

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] CMake modularization update
From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-30 23:12:51

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:17 PM, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> on Wed Oct 29 2008, "Doug Gregor" <doug.gregor-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I added some debugging into the BoostCore.cmake modularization code so that
>>> I can try and figure out what has been and has NOT been modularized. What I
>>> am coming up with is 27 libraries have been modularized and there are 79
>>> libraries. So that leaves 52 libraries to be modularized. Is that Correct?
>>
>> That sounds right. I suggest modularizing from the leaves, and
>> avoiding trying to modularize those libraries that are tangled in the
>> core of Boost-config, type_traits, MPL, preprocessor, etc.
>
> Doug, what's your opinion of where that should go in the long run?
> Should we leave it alone, or should we eventually break these things
> down into modularizable pieces?

It'd leave it alone. Nearly everything else in Boost depends on these
libraries, so they're all going to be installed anyway.

  - Doug