Re: [boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] Developing a (nearly new) library possibly to be proposed for Boost
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-09 16:25:07

On 2/9/2014 1:05 PM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
> I'm revisiting
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModDev

I hit the send button accidentally so please ignore my first reply.

>
> to try set up a new library.
>
> I've started by trying to use the simple 'library' I created over a year ago using a previous
> version of this document.
>
> Is it intended that users should place their 'Boost-Wannabe' libraries in the modular-boost in
> /libs/mylibrary as other real Boost libraries ?

Yes.

>  When I assumed this, I found it impossible to GIT
> clone my existing 'simple' library into the /libs folder as it is not empty, so the 2nd line
>
>    git clone  <mailto:git_at_[hidden]:Beman/simple.git> git_at_[hidden]:Beman/simple.git
>
> fails.

Just cd to modular-boost's libs subdirectory, open a terminal, then

git clone git_at_[hidden]:MyName/mylibrary.git

or what I use since I avoid SSH on Windows:

git clone https://github.com/MyName/mylibrary.git

>
> This feels the right place for
>
> Or is recommended to use some folder like sandbox/libs/mylibrary/ for one's stuff, including of
> course a
>
>    sandbox/libs/mylibrary/include/boost/mylibrary/
>
> to hold my .hpp files?

Yes, but not in a sandbox but directly from the Boost libs/mylibrary folder.

>
> Either way I presume I need a link from modular-boost/boost to point to
> sandbox/libs/mylibrary/include/
>
> Should I provide a symbolic link /D or a hardlink (as b2 headers creates)?

Provide a symbolic link to the directory. From the modular-boost boost 
directory:

mklink /d mylibrary ../libs/mylibrary/include/boost/mylibrary

>
> C:\Windows\system32>mklink /D I:\modular-boost\boost\ mylibrary I:\sandbox\libs\ mylibrary
> \include\boost\ mylibrary
> symbolic link created for I:\modular-boost\boost\ mylibrary <<===>> I:\sandbox\libs\ mylibrary
> \include\boost\ mylibrary
>
> seems to work.
>
> Or do I add this folder to the Include directory list?  (Tiresome)

No.