Re: [boost] [Git] Documentation for Git and Modular Boost conversion

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Documentation for Git and Modular Boost conversion
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-15 21:10:00

on Sat Dec 08 2012, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On December 7, 2012 8:54:33 PM Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> We are starting to pull together documentation for the Git and Modular
>> Boost conversion.
>>
>> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/WikiStart#GitandModularBoost
>>
>> Comments and corrections welcome!
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in unanswered questions you have after
>> reading these initial docs.
>
> Great work, thank you.
>
> Maybe I missed it somewhere but do I understand correctly that develop
> branch corresponds to the current trunk? Also, what branches will be
> tested?
>
> I would also like to see instructions of checking out and composing a
> monolithic Boost distribution, possibly with (or without) only
> selected libraries. 

Short answer:

  git clone --recursive https://github.com/boost-lib/boost.git

gets everything.  If you start with a non-recursive clone then you can
control which submodules you get; see the Git documentation (yes, a
more complete answer should go on the wiki).

> As I understand, the common boost/ directory with links to library
> headers would have to be recreated somehow.

  cd boost
  cmake -P forward_headers.cmake

> And is there a way to specify dependencies between libraries? 

Some of that is already present in the Jamfiles.

> Is it possible to checkout lib A and everything it requires?

Not automatically today, with the current build system.  After a switch
to cmake, yes.  That will eventually be something like:

  ryppl develop http://ryppl.github.com/feeds/boost/
>.xml

This command has already been implemented for cmake-enabled boost (and
recently broke because of changes in the dependency structure but will
be repaired shortly).

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