Re: [boost] [Git] Moving beyond arm waving?

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Moving beyond arm waving?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-07 08:28:56

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> At Mon, 7 Feb 2011 12:27:21 -0000,
> John Maddock wrote:

>> >  http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/library-name/boost/
>> >  http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/library-name/libs/
>> >
>> > The planned/proposed organization is roughly like the latter.  If you want to
>> > look at the organization in detail, see https://github.com/boost-lib/boost
>>
>> Nod, either could be supported by Boost.Build trivially provided there's a
>> complete (integrated) release tree sitting around somewhere - otherwise as you
>> mention the compiler command paths get stupidly long....
>
> I don't know what you mean by "complete (integrated) release tree", but we're
> not planning to do that.  We're only planning, as part of the build process, to
> generate forwarding headers in an integrated include tree

By "we", do you mean ryppl?

I've gone through the process John Wiegley kindly sent me:

Grab the supermodule:   git clone git://github.com/boost-lib/boost.git

Then 'cd' into the "boost" directory it created, and run:  git
submodule update --init

Then continued as described here:  http://ryppl.github.com/gettingstarted.html

That produced a completely new tree with the forwarding headers, not
under version control. It seemed oriented to what a user might want.

What about a library developer? What does the tree structure they work
with look like? How does integrate with their development repo? I
guess the non-version controlled tree produced by the above could be
used as a "complete (integrated) release tree", but I'd like to know
the specifics, and give them a try.

Thanks,

--Beman