Re: [boost] Radical idea for repository structure

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-19 20:16:58

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> 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?

I'd second that! I think this is a *very* important matter to
discuss and IMO in no way is it distracting from our discussions.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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