Re: [boost] [Git] Modularization of Boost.Any, Boost.Array, and Boost.StaticAssert

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Modularization of Boost.Any, Boost.Array, and Boost.StaticAssert
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-26 10:47:09

on Tue Dec 25 2012, Daniel Pfeifer <daniel-AT-pfeifer-mail.de> wrote:

> 2012/12/26 Klaim - Joël Lamotte <mjklaim_at_[hidden]>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Daniel Pfeifer <daniel_at_[hidden]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > I propose to put all three of them into the Boost.Utility repository.
>> > Comments?
>> >
>>
>> It would mean that getting a specific version of one of these libraries
>> will potentially change the version of the other libraries.
>> As they don't seem directly related, it might not be a good idea.
>> DVCS repositories are cheap (on space) so is there specific reasons that
>> would make this better?
>>
>
> Consistency. Boost.Utility already hosts some similarly small and unrelated
> libaries: CallTraits, Noncopyable, Operators, EnableIf, ...

Well, there's also the possibility that these libraries should each have
their own repository.  That would be another way of achieving consistency.

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