Re: [boost] Request for a "Policy Review" regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for a "Policy Review" regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-17 17:26:48

Thijs (M.A.) van den Berg wrote:

> Boost is a monolithic release, it might indeed be good to think about how 
> the outcome of the CMake discussion interacts with the other profound 
> change that has been worked on not so long ago: to model and reduce 
> dependencies between libraries and break the monolithic structure.

That is also a bit beside my point. It doesn't matter for this use case 
whether Boost is monolithic or not; it could be that only a few of the 
libraries have in fact been installed. What matters is that the directory 
structure is

$BOOST_ROOT/
    libs/
        hana/
        lib2/
        lib3/

and that the user wishes to build, test and optionally install one (and then 
optionally another) of the libraries.