Re: [boost] Radical idea for repository structure

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-19 12:00:42

On 9/19/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> on Tue Sep 18 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su> wrote:
>

[snip]

> > I worry that yet another round of "how to place files in SVN" discussion,
> > will distract from real problems.
>
> Fair enough.  I'm not claiming this is urgent or even necessarily a
> problem-solver, so if there are more important things to discuss,
> please raise them and re-focus our attention.

IMHO, the modularity David is proposing, which, btw, I asked something
like it twice before with regard to include directories being
exclusive to libraries, but being mostly ignored, is a very important
concern. This modularity would easier patching the trunk and seeing
what broke what. The dependencies could also, latter, be given by
boost.build.
For that, though, even the header-only libraries should have their
headers separate, forcing every dependency to be explicit in the
Jamfiles.
And, until now, I can't foresee any future problems, but maybe I'm
being too optimistic, I dont know. Problems with CMake, maybe?

>
> --
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
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Best regards,
-- 
Felipe Magno de Almeida