Re: [boost] ATTENTION: Library requirements..

Subject: Re: [boost] ATTENTION: Library requirements..
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-01-07 13:21:35

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> A few observations
>

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b) Organization.  It's not clear whether or not files/directories besides
> the one's listed are permitted.  For example I have in the serialization
> library
>
> /utility
>    Jam scripts shared by other directories
> /performance
>    Benchmark testing programs.  Otherwise looks just like test
> /CMake
>    CMake scripts to build the serialization library
> /doc/
>    html/
>        html documentation
>    boostbook/
>        xml files to create html docs
>
> May I presume that including these is not a problem?  They
> don't conflict with any thing you've previously listed.
>

Still allowed. But.. I, as in personally, reorganize that to remove the
extra top dirs :-)

For example:

/util
    * Move to /build/util
/performance
    * Move to /test/performance
/CMake
    * Move to /build/cmake
/doc/boostbook
    * Rename to /doc/src

But that's all just my personal preference.

c) Building Documentation
>
> I would need a better example to figure this out.
>
> BTW one boost library should be selected as the "golden" or canonical
> example so that it can be used as an example for others to follow.
> Responsability for maintaining this is the "perfect" state would fall to
> the person responsable for keeping things running.  The idea would be that
> someone complains that they can't figure this thing out (normally me), You
> can just point to the "golden example" and say do it this way.
>

I'm making my Predef library be that "golden" example. By commenting the
source to illustrate the requirements. But since my lib doesn't have source
it may not be the best.

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Basically, I'm impressed that this is a fairly conservative document which
> doesn't require and major changes for anyone who has been trying to follow
> the rules all along.
>

We've always been careful to accommodate.

As for the "[cut]" parts of your post.. I would suggest starting new
threads for specific subjects (license, javascript, etc.). As I was only
asking about the parts I changed in this. I.e. the structure/integration.

Hope this helps make your job easier.

Meh ;-) What would make it easier is doing PRs when there's consensus for
other changes.

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