Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?

Subject: Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-14 12:20:00

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 4/14/16 7:22 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/13/16 3:37 PM, P F wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The CMakeLists.txt file should be in the top-level directory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hmmmm - says who?  I realize that this is the common way to do it.  But
>>> it
>>> ends up sprinkling CMakeList.txt files all over the place.  Doing it the
>>> way I've done makes supporting CMake much less intrusive and leaves the
>>> "footprint" of CMake support on par with build (boost build) easily
>>> permitting the user to select which he prefers.
>>>
>>
>>
>> <http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Organization>
>>
>> LOL - can you believe that in 13 years (since the copyright date 2003)
> I've never seen this - or at least never remember seeing this?
>

I can believe it :-) It's some times easier some times to just copy what
others are doing and looking up docs.

Had I been around at the beginning and had perfect vision 15 years into the
> future, I would have advocated for a structure
> <library name>
>   build
>     boost_build
>

Good idea.. But indeed 15 years late.

  doc
>     html
>     boostbook
>     markup

    ..
>   src
>     ...
>   test
>     ...
>   performance test
>   ...
>

That's about what we have.

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