Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 10:06:43

On May 10, 2007, at 9:38 AM, David Abrahams wrote:

>
> on Thu May 10 2007, Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> You're not saying that, or code shouldn't be factored out?

Stupid... written... communication...

I'm not saying that code shouldn't be factored out and checked into  
Boost.

I am saying that code should be factored out, but not to the point  
where we've built our own un-CMake-like build system on top of CMake.

        - Doug