[boost] Re: directory structure (requirements summary and proposal)

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-02 07:41:50

Daryle,

>I'm not sure what I'm going to say is implicitly covered in the docs. 
When
>I make Boost libraries, or work on an existing one, I make a parallel
>directory that only contains the files and directories I'm working on. 
Then
>I adjust my IDE's paths so it grabs my new version of the files before the
>current ones.  But I don't replicate the other Boost files, so the
original
>ones are grabbed when I reference a not-worked-on file.  (My ZIP files are
>based on this.)  I wonder if a new structure can keep that idea, since I
>don't use CVS.

I often work that way as well.  I don't see any problem with this, provided
that the headers are in a single location, as they are in the proposal
(under boost-root/boost/), in which case your include paths increase from
one to two as is the case now.

- John.