Re: [boost] Radical idea for repository structure

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-18 15:53:49

David Abrahams wrote:
> A few days ago I started thinking about the implications of giving
> each Boost library a separate subtree of the repository, and it led me
> to some interesting places.
> 
> * Start with the assumption that each library has a boost/ directory
>   containing its subset of the headers it currently has.  So, for
>   example, Boost.Python would have
> 
>            boost/
>               python.hpp
>               python/  
>                  ...
> 
>   where "..." above is identical to the current contents of
>   $BOOST_ROOT/boost/python/
> 
> * Our release process would merge the boost/ directories
> 
> * To test a library from a source distribution, you'd need to get the
>   boost/ directories of any libraries it depends on into the #include
>   path.

Right. A fallout of this is that it all in a sudden becomes easy to
test a development snapshot of a single library against all prerequisite
libraries being from some stable state. Yay for modularity.

Regards,
                Stefan

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