Re: [boost] [svn/git/hg] Support for modularization of Boost?

Subject: Re: [boost] [svn/git/hg] Support for modularization of Boost?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-04 03:20:51

Beman Dawes wrote:
> As far as I can see, scaling Boost up to a much larger number of
> libraries implies decentralization and decoupling, probably in the
> form of per-library modules or something similar.

100 % aggree with this.

> Modularization seems to have been missed in the discussions of
> Subversion, Git, and Mercurial. Do distributed version control systems
> in general and Git in particular have any important
> advantages/disadvantages over svn for highly modularized projects?

Hmmm - if boost is "modularized" - wouldn't that mean that
each library has it's own repository.  Or that each developer
can decide where he want's to store his version?

I would think that the testing/deployment process could
update/export each library from a different place without
much problem.

Robert Ramey.