Re: [boost] Using CVS to get Boost work-in-progress

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-19 06:00:54

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Phil Richards
| Sent: 18 January 2006 19:55
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] Using CVS to get Boost work-in-progress
| 
| On 2006-01-15, Davide Bolcioni <davide_bolcioni_at_[hidden]> wrote:
| >  Phil Richards ha scritto:
| > > Well, that might be interesting - the obvious thing to do is
| > > something like
| > >     cvs -d <whatever> -z3 co boost/boost/regex
| > > But then, of course, you need boost/boost/regex.h and friends, and
| > > also boost/libs/regex.  Then you need to scan all the files
| > > you've just got and make sure the all the #include's from 
| boost/boost
| > > that are used are pulled down...  Oh, and you'll probably need the
| > > Boost.Build stuff, too, just in case the jam files in the 
| project use
| > > new/fixed stuff.
| >  Most of the above might be obtained using CVS 'modules', see for
| >  example here:
| [snip]
| 
| Yes, but the problem is that somebody has to create (and maintain) all
| the appropriate modules (one per boost library, at the very 
| least).  It
| *might* be possible to automate it (and possibly this could be reused
| for Subversion)... but I wonder if it isn't more effort than 
| it's worth?
| 

As these libraries become more intertwined, you may be right.

At present the test library, the most generally useful, is free of much
dependency.

So this would be useful.

Paul 

PS But I have temporarily dispaired of getting bjam to work right for me.

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