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 16:51:33

On 4 June 2015 at 21:30, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>>
>> On 4 June 2015 at 19:56, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> ...
>>
>> > 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?
>
>
> It doesn't.

So why does it matter where the modules are?