Re: [boost] Re: Managing boost dependencies

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-09 13:20:38

At 11:17 AM 6/8/2003, David Abrahams wrote:

 >"John Maddock" <jm_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >
 >> Folks,
 >>
 >> I've put together a small tool for managing boost dependencies called 
bcp
 >> (for boost copy).
 >>
 >> The bcp utility is a tool for extracting subsets of Boost, it's useful
 >> for
 >> Boost authors who want to distribute their library separately from 
Boost,
 >> and for Boost users who want to distribute a subset of Boost with their
 >> application.
 >>
 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 >>
 >> As usual comments etc are most welcome,
 >
 >All I can say is that this is totally awesome, and thank you.

It really is neat!

 >> also should a utility/tool such as this go through the review
 >> process
 >
 >I don't think it needs to.  We review libraries, but traditionally
 >tools are just checked in if they seem useful or are known to be
 >needed.  This one is.

I agree with Dave. The tools stuff is basically an administrative function, 
and traditionally Boosters have been willing to leave the admin decisions 
to the moderators. I do think it is useful to ask for comments before 
adding a major section to tools.

I downloaded the .zip file and glanced at the contents. Looks very nice 
indeed. I'd say definitely add it to tools. Maybe in a directory with a 
more meaningful name than just bcp.

One additional thought: tools/inspect/cvs_iterator.hpp provides roughly 
similar functionality to some of the code in bcp. Maybe we should 
factor  out the functionality so it is generally available for recursing 
through any (including non-Boost) CVS tree. (That's a quick thought, not a 
considered opinion:-)

Thanks!

--Beman