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

Subject: Re: [boost] [svn/git/hg] Support for modularization of Boost?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-11 10:15:33

on Wed Apr 11 2012, Martin Geisler <mg-AT-aragost.com> wrote:

> I'm happy to see the talk about 0install, which I understand is a tool
> that will manage the dependencies better.

I'm currently standing up 0install feeds for modularized boost,
e.g. http://ryppl.github.com/feeds/Boost.Signals2.xml

This is work-in-progress; installation doesn't complete because of the
many usage dependencies (other libraries you need in order to use
Signals2) that I haven't generated feeds for yet, but you can see it
beginning to work if you try it (and anyone who wants to help is most
welcome).

The use of 0install makes modularization a non-issue where the DVCS is
concerned, so I truly don't think it's worth hashing over the different
ways you can handle this with Hg or Git or SVN.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com