Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.

Subject: Re: [boost] Removing old config macro and increasing compiler requirements.
From: Stephen Kelly (steveire_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-04 04:28:01

On 08/03/2013 11:08 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
> on Wed Jul 31 2013, Stephen Kelly <steveire-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>> That could be an option. Timing is difficult though. I still believe, as
>> I wrote before
>>
>>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.ryppl.devel/201/focus=208
>>
>> that modularization should be done before repo-splitting into many (35
>> in the case of attempting to use boost::any) interdependent repos.
> Why do you believe that?  It seems to me much, much easier to untangle
> undesired dependencies after the repositories are split.

A personal bias I suppose :). I don't know why you think it's much much
easier to do post-split, but I guess the reason doesn't matter too much
and it's manageable either way.

Thanks,

Steve.