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Subject: Re: [boost] Why Boost.Build?
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-30 09:49:40


On 1:59 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> At Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:38:47 -0500,
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> Even though I was the one who contributed to the increase of end users
>> dealing with BBv2, with the creation of the build&install support,
>> I've always been a proponent that having users rely on the Boost build
>> setup is a bug. I.e. users should be able to drop source code into
>> their own build system without *any* other extra effort. And the fact
>> that many Boost libraries can't do that is sad.
> Very sad.
>
>> So Boost end users should *not* be the primary audience!
> Well, but they are. What's your proposed way around it?

Beat CMake. ;-)

>> And like Emil says in reply to this also, for those of us that use
>> BBv2 the only painful drawback is the speed.
> As a member of that group, I beg to differ.

I'm open to the possibility that speed issues stem from the sheer size
of the boost distribution.


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