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Subject: Re: [boost] [CMake] what to do now?
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-15 18:46:20


On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:17:11 PM UTC-5, Glen Fernandes wrote:
>
> Paul wrote:
> > This would be unfortunate, as it would make it a pain to use a lot of
> > tools(cmake, travis, appveyor, etc) with boost libraries just because of
> > an
> > arbitrary rule 15 years ago.
>
> Right. It would be better if the Boost guidelines were less restrictive.
>
> The approach I would prefer is: Instead of restricting the contents of the
> library repository root directory, restrict the contents of the '.boost'
> (or
> 'boost', or 'meta') directory. There should be sufficient specification in
> there to inform the Boost build and release process about the library.
>

I agree.
 

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