Re: [boost] [Git] Modularizing Boost libraries with sublibs

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Modularizing Boost libraries with sublibs
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-09 14:22:35

2012/12/9 Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>

> On Dec 9, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Daniel Pfeifer <daniel_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >> While adding Boost.ODEint to the modularization manifest, I realized
> some
> >> inconsistencies about sublibs.
> >>
> >> The directories in "libs" usually contain one library each. In this
> case,
> >> we move the content to a dedicated Git repository. Some directories
> however
> >> (algorithm, numeric) host multiple libraries. How should we treat them?
> >>
> >> Move each one to a dedicated Git repository, or leave them grouped
> together?
> >>
> >> What's currently inconsistent, is that "numeric" is split into
> individual
> >> repositories, while "algorithm" is not.
> >
> > Size is at least one objective difference between "numeric" and
> "algorithm".
> >
> > "boost/numeric" is 210 Files, 30 Folders, and 3,094,931 bytes.
> > "boost/algorithm" is 70 Files, 6 Folders, and 487,109 bytes.
> >
> >>
> >> Further, I saw that the Git submodules of numeric's sublibraries are
> >> generated in "libs" rather than "libs/numeric", which is wrong. However,
> >> before I fix it, we need to decide whether these individual submodules
> >> should be individual or not.
> >>
> >> Opinions?
> >
> > Unless someone comes up with a killer argument to do otherwise, I'd
> > say numeric stays separate submodules and algorithms stays as a single
> > sub-module. I agree with you that the numeric sub-libraries should be
> > in libs/numeric.
>
> The sub-libraries in Boost.Algorithm are a historical artifact, not
> something that was designed.
>
> In an ideal world (i.e, one where I have CFT), the separate sub-libraries
> in Boost.Algorithm would disappear, leaving a single Boost.Algorithm
> library in its' place.
>

By disappear, you mean "move somewhere else" or "not be seen as sublibs any
more"?