2010/8/17 Michael Jackson <mike.jackson@bluequartz.net>

So I saw the announcement that Boost 1.44.0 had been released. I took a look
around www.gitorious.com/boost and noticed that the following:
http://gitorious.org/~denisarnaud/boost/denisarnauds-zeuners-boost-cmake/co
mmits/1.44.0-denis
is a clone that is keeping up with the latest releases and HEAD from
Boost-SVN.

You do have sharp eyes :)
Indeed, now, the only difference between the newly released Boost-1.44.0 version and that Gitorious-hosted Git branch is made of the "CMake framework".

There are some small issues still with using the boost-cmake installation
with it's default settings and CMake's own "FindBoost.cmake" file.

You are right. For instance, in Fedora, Boost own support for CMake is no longer shipped with the Boost RPM package, as it hindered some other software components to build correctly: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597020#c7

Work-arounds are easy (Matter of setting some CMake variables correctly) and
I have asked on the CMake mailing list to see if some additions to the
FindBoost.cmake file can be added to the next release of CMake in order to
make a default build of boost-cmake work better with CMake itself.

Do not hesitate to send me a patch, or to request a merge (http://gitorious.org/boost/denisarnauds-zeuners-boost-cmake/merge_requests/new) after having cloned my Gitorious repository (http://gitorious.org/~denisarnaud/boost/denisarnauds-zeuners-boost-cmake).

PS: Troy, if you are listening, could you please add some others as
administrators to the gitorious/boost project so we can keep the
distributions in a single place? Thanks.

If you give me your Gitorious username, I can add you as an administrator of my Git repository. Also, if you have better ideas for the Gitorious repository organisation, names or management, do not hesitate: I would be happy to derive from any other Git repository you deem relevant.