Re: [boost] NuGet packages for boost

Subject: Re: [boost] NuGet packages for boost
From: Ben Craig (ben.craig_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-09-19 09:13:25

> Are you aware of the modularization plan for boost?
> 
>  https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMakeModularizationStatus
I'm aware now :).  I have seen Jens Weller's Boost dependency analyzer (
http://www.meetingcpp.com/index.php/br/items/boost-dependency-analyzer.html 
) and I was pretty sure that it was related to efforts like this.

> Note also that even with code in separate git repos, there is currently
> a complex mesh of interdependencies between the repos/libraries. The
> real work is to do actual modularization of the code:
I think that the modularization effort has a lot of value.  I don't think 
it is necessary for NuGet though.  As I understand the modularization 
effort, it is also trying to express the dependencies between headers-only 
libraries.  For NuGet, I would likely just put all the headers in a 
"boost_includes" package.  Sergey has already demonstrated that such an 
approach is possible.

That said, Google hasn't shown me any documentation on binary-library 
dependencies.  This can be determined empirically, but I am afraid of the 
information getting stale.