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

Subject: Re: [boost] What would make tool authors happier..
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-04 15:06:07

On 4 June 2015 at 19:56, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>>
>> I've had no problem dealing with the numeric modules. The output of 'git
>> config -f .gitmodules -l' contains pretty much everything you need to know.
>
>
> ...
>
>> If you're trying to find modules by walking the filesystem, you'll just
>> create problems for yourself.
>
>
> Walking the filesystem produces better results in the following cases:
>
> - when you have manually placed a (proposed) library in libs/ that is not
> yet a submodule
> - when you have a Boost directory structure that has no Git metadata

In these cases, why does your tool need to understand git modules?

> - or when you have a Boost directory that doesn't have all the libraries in
> libs/ but just a subset

That's easily dealt with. You just check that the module is present.