Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?

Subject: Re: [boost] Directory structure not quite right yet?
From: Brian Schrom (brian.schrom_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-31 12:11:25

On 12/31/2014 03:28 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:
>Typically, when  some  library is  installed in, say, $LIB,  its headers
 >reside  in   $LIB/include  and  its  .a/.lib   files  in $LIB/lib. Our
 >libraries,  when   built,  go  to  $BOOST/stage/lib, which  is  close
 >enough. But our  header directory  is just  $BOOST, which doesn't seem
 >right, as the whole of Boost is accessible through it.
 >
 >It   makes  sense,   at  least   to  me,   to  have   the headers   in
 >$BOOST/include/boost, instead  of just $BOOST/boost. The transition to
 >Git would have been  a good time to switch to that  - there were enough
 >other changes to the structure.
 >
 >I'm not saying that we should switch right away or something like that,
 >but am I the  only one to whom such a switch  (at some unspecified time
 >in the future) seems a good idea?
 >

Has there  been more  thought or consideration  for the distribution of
Boost and  how it's packaged?  If  one is working from  the Boost source
tree,  seems  like  they  are  in  boost  developer  mode. If  they  are
developing  another project  that uses  Boost and  Boost tools,  then it
seems like they'd want an  installation, possibly a specific version, of
Boost maybe  in /usr/local/boost-1.57.  There are distribution packages
of Boost,  but maybe  there is  something similar  to the current stage
target that makes it feel like  it's more of a distribution package than
working in the source tree.  Just my rambling thoughts.