Re: [boost] [Ann] Boost and Google Summer of Code 2007

From: Kevin Heifner (heifner_k_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-03 22:22:19

Jeff Garland wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> Jeff Garland wrote:
>>> Bjørn Roald wrote:
>>>> Jeff Garland wrote:
>>>> By the way, http://www.trolltech.com has a similar solution called qmake 
>>>> which is used in Qt.  This may or may not be more appropriate in an 
>>>> optional add-on to Boost.Build.  
>>> Non-technical issue: MPC has a boost compatible license -- I doubt QT does.
>> Unless I completely miss the point I don't think licensing issues play any
>> role here. What is suggested is not to integrate any boost code with any Qt
>> code, but instead to provide an interface for boost *users* to more easily
>> access build parameters used when developing *with* boost libraries.
> 
> Well, perhaps not, but in the past we've been fairly averse to requiring other 
> tools form other sources so ultimately some parts of these systems might need 
> to be in the boost tools tree.

We have offered before to provide an initial set of MPC files and 
to help maintain them.  If you are interested in accepting MPC 
files into boost, please let us know.

BTW, MPC comes with boost base projects to derive from to make it 
very easy to use boost with a project.  For, example here is a 
mpc file contents for a project that uses boost_thread and 
boost_unit_test_framework:

project : boost_unit_test_framework, boost_thread {
}

That is the complete file.  MPC uses the concept of good defaults 
to make most mpc files very simple.

KevinH
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