Re: [boost] A set of individual libraries vs. One big library

Subject: Re: [boost] A set of individual libraries vs. One big library
From: Thomas Klimpel (Thomas.Klimpel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-20 08:45:59

Anis Benyelloul wrote:
> PS. But the page talks about using CMake (i.e replacing bjam???)
Aren't we
> mixing two problems? (the build system used vs. the way libraries are
organized)

I guess CMake is not as powerful as bjam, and therefore requires the
libraries to be more modularized. But this is not really the fault of
CMake, since it only generates the build-environments for a variety of
existing build tools (like Visual Studio, KDevelop, eclipse, "classic"
unix make, ...), so it somehow has to limit the allowed non-modularity
to what the "weakest" of the supported build-environments supports.

Regards,
Thomas