Re: [boost] Recent changes in Boost policies

Subject: Re: [boost] Recent changes in Boost policies
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-30 11:45:50

Niall Douglas wrote:

> Hang on, are you saying here that bpm is fully functional for all Boost 
> libraries right now?

You can follow the instructions in

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

and try it out. See also

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

I haven't tested the libraries one by one. It's possible that some don't 
work; but if so, to address the problem, I'll first need to know which 
libraries don't work.

> If so, why aren't we shipping bpm based fully modular Boost right now?

- bpm likes to place the headers in $BOOST_ROOT/include/boost, instead of 
$BOOST_ROOT/boost
- We need to modularize the documentation so that installing a library via 
bpm also installs its documentation
- And we need to decide what to do with parts of the release that aren't 
currently part of a submodule, such as for example the more/ subdirectory.

Apart from that, I see no major roadblocks for doing a bpm release right now 
on the basis of 1.58.0, but as I'm not very familiar with the release 
procedure, which is more involved than I thought, there may be something 
that I've missed.