Re: [boost] Relocating boost to a different namespace?

From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-16 17:07:22

John Maddock wrote:
> Bjørn Roald wrote:
>   
>> My modified version of bcp does all of the above as it copies a subset
>> or all of boost into a new location.  It has never been used in
>> production, however I am convinced it is useful or usable if you like
>> to call it that.  As it has not been used in production some more
>> testing is needed.   My once urgent need faded of completly unrelated
>> resons.
>>
>> I have posted a bcp patch to the list at least once:
>>
>> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Using-multiple-versions-of-Boost-p10706158.html
>>     
>
> Ah, I think I must have missed those patches :-(
>   

Ok, I remerged toward svn trunk and posted in reply to Erik.

>> By the way, does anybody know if bcp -cvs work correctly after the
>> move to svn?
>>     
>
> No, I'm afraid not.  It's on my TODO list, but SVN uses a binary format for 
> it's "entries" files, so it's not so easy to figure out what is and is not 
> under version control.
>   

Hm, if it is binary, would using a svn library be acceptable?  Maybe we 
could do it trough a dynamically loadable plug-in so it would not be 
required for the basic bcp tool.  Anyways, I guess licensing may be an 
issue, but this is not a boost library, it is a tool.

-- 
Bjørn