Re: [boost] Moving the include directory to $BOOST_ROOT/include? (again)

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving the include directory to $BOOST_ROOT/include? (again)
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-02 02:24:52

On 6/2/2015 3:59 AM, Tom Kent wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I want to reiterate my suggestion that we move Boost's include directory
>> from $BOOST_ROOT to $BOOST_ROOT/include.
>>
>
> Our organization has been following the example in the first pages of the
> getting started guide [1][2] and using #include <boost/header.path.hpp>
> with $BOOST_ROOT in our include path, so changing that to 'include' would
> require major source changes to our (and presumably lots of others') code
> bases.
>
> I think this is far too disruptive of a change for the benefits described.

Tom,

I think the suggestion is to have $BOOST_ROOT/include/boost, so no 
changes in the source code will be required. You will need a change to
the -I option passed to the compiler, which is non-zero pain, but
considerably less pain that changing every source file.

- Volodya