Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version

Subject: Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-03 23:21:08

Robert Ramey wrote:
> If it were done via tar balls the procedure would look something like the 
> following:
>
> a) There would be one tar ball per library. I guess that means that if 
> done today that would mean around 118 libraries.

...

You seem to have missed the bpm discussions, Robert, so here's the 
"announcement":

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/01/218757.php
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/01/218891.php

Reading about Beman's experience may be of value too:

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2015/01/218934.php

bpm doesn't quite work the way you envisage, in that the user doesn't run a 
dependency checker locally to determine what needs to be installed (as the 
dependency checker can't actually dependency-check something that isn't 
installed yet). Instead, when you say "bpm install serialization", it 
downloads a pre-created module dependency graph and then downloads and 
installs whatever the graph says are serialization's dependencies.

Give bpm a go and you'll hopefully get a feel for what we're (seemingly 
endlessly) talking about.