Re: [boost] RFC: Separating Boost.Python from Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] RFC: Separating Boost.Python from Boost
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-29 16:25:08

On 5/29/15 12:57 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> a) I perused the python library source code and it includes only
>> couple of boost header files.  So it's not really dependent on the
>> rest of boost at all.  Not a good or bad thing - just an observation.
>
> That's what boostdep is for. "boostdep python" will tell you what it
> includes.
>
> http://www.pdimov.com/tmp/report-develop-08112c5/python.html

very good - I didn't think of that.  I guess it pretty well proves taht 
I was wrong in thinking that python could be decoupled from other boost 
source code.

So it seems that this "independence" really just means making the bjam 
files not dependent on the boost root ones.  I'm not sure that I see the 
point to or the value in this.  But it still seems to me that it doesn't 
change anything.

Robert Ramey