Re: [boost] What would make tool authors happier..

Subject: Re: [boost] What would make tool authors happier..
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-02 16:43:34

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> Rene Rivera wrote:
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>>  * What I've mentioned as "flattening" of libraries.
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>> Specifically, this means that
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>> 1. the headers live in libs/*/include (already implemented)
>> 2. the test Jamfiles live in libs/*/test
>> 3. the build Jamfiles live in libs/*/build
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>> This is _almost_ the case today, and making this an official and enforced
>> policy will not be as disruptive as it seems. The only offenders are (I
>> think) libs/numeric/* and libs/function_types/build.
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>> There's also
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>> 4. the documentation root is libs/*/index.html and the documentation
>> lives (as a general rule) in libs/*/doc/html
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> And.. 5. the source lives in libs/*/src.
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> The set of libraries that have extraneous files/dirs are roughly:
> algorithm, align, asio, assert, bind, chrono, compatibility, compute,
> concept_check, config, container, context, conversion, convert, core, crc,
> date_time, disjoint_sets, dynamic_bitset, endian, filesystem, format,
> functional, fusion, geometry, gil, heap, interprocess, intrusive,
> lexical_cast, locale, log, math, move, mpl, multi_index, multiprecision,
> numeric, phoenix, polygon, predef (yes my own lib, I know), property_tree,
> proto, python, random, random, regex, serialization, smart_ptr, sort,
> spirit, statechart, static_assert, test, thread, tokenizer, type_index,
> type_traits, typeof, units, unordered, utility, uuid, variant, wave, and
> xpressive.
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PS. The quick search I used is:

> cd boost-root
> ls -d1 libs/*/* | grep -E -v
"[/](build|doc|example|include|meta|src|test|index.html|README|README.md|ChangeLog)$"

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