Re: [boost] [modularization] Modularizing Boost (modularization)

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] Modularizing Boost (modularization)
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-21 00:07:53

on Fri Oct 18 2013, Stephen Kelly <steveire-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

>> C++11/14 boost would have a markedly different dependency graph, since
>> libraries would only use the boost versions of other libraries if they
>> needed some extension not present in the standard library version.
>
> That's part of my thinking too. Eg, mpl would not depend on Boost.PP if
> used by a C++11 compiler if my phase 3 is completed. That is the kind of
> thing we can encode into the cmake package files.

I doubt that MPL uses PP only for variadic template emulation.

-- 
Dave Abrahams