Re: [boost] Submodules of Boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Submodules of Boost libraries
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-10-06 10:42:02

On Monday 06 October 2014 16:29:07 Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> On 06/10/14 15:48, Adam Wulkiewicz wrote:
> > Boost sublibrary/sublib
> > Correct me if I'm wrong. To allow dividing libraries into smaller
> > functional parts (SVN) "sublibs" system was introduced. With it it's
> > possible to keep the tests and examples separated for each part. In the
> > library there must be a correct directories structure and there must
> > exist a file called "sublibs", see (geometry, numeric, functional,
> > etc.). Then you can see separated sublibs e.g. on the regression summary
> > page:
> > http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html
> 
> This is what I was looking for.
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems it's only usable to divide tests, examples and
> documentation, and not headers, sources or usage requirements.

[snip]

> What I would want, however, is
> 
> BOOST_ROOT/libs
> +-library_name
>     +-sublib_name1
> 
>     | +-include
>     | 
>     | | +-boost
>     | | 
>     | | | +-sublib_name1
>     | | | 
>     | | | | +-...
>     | 
>     | +-test
>     | 
>     | | +-Jamfile.v2
>     | 
>     | +-example
>     | +-build
>     | 
>     | | +-Jamfile.v2
>     | 
>     | +-src
> 
>     +-sublib_name2
> 
>     | +-include
>     | 
>     | | +-boost
>     | | 
>     | | | +-sublib_name2
>     | | | 
>     | | | | +-...
>     | 
>     | +-test
>     | 
>     | | +-Jamfile.v2
>     | 
>     | +-example
>     | +-build
>     | 
>     | | +-Jamfile.v2
>     | 
>     | +-src
> 
>     +-(file)sublibs

AFAIK, a sublib can contain everything - headers, sources, docs and tests (see 
libs/numeric for example). I didn't try the sources and build/Jamfile.v2 in a 
sublib though.

> > Each sublibtest dir should be added to the BOOST_ROOT/status/Jamfile.v2
> > to run the tests for all submodules.
> 
> That's a bit tedious.
> Shouldn't this be automatically computed?

It'd be great if it did but currently it's not.