Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 09:16:49

On May 10, 2007, at 7:01 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
> on Wed May 09 2007, Doug Gregor <dgregor-AT-osl.iu.edu> wrote:
>> We expend a lot of effort maintaining Boost.Build, much of which
>> could be avoided if we bought into an existing system rather than
>> rolling our own. To switch to another "back-end" and still roll our
>> own... that would just be more wasted effort.
>
> Well, c'mon.  I am going to have to write scripts to quickly run
> developer tests on multiple compilers, and someone will have to make
> it possible for regression testers to do the same thing.  Are you
> saying that code shouldn't be factored out and checked into Boost?

Certainly not. Boost.Build version 2 is a very interesting, object- 
oriented build system built on top of Jam, that looks absolutely  
nothing like Jam. I don't see any point in building another build  
system on top of CMake that looks absolutely nothing like CMake. If  
we pick up a standard tool, let's use it as-is and only customize  
when we need to.

        - Doug