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

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Request for a "Policy Review" regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-19 18:01:27

On 5/19/16 2:39 PM, Jeff Trull wrote:
> One more vote for "allow CMakeLists.txt in the places we allow Jamfiles".
> Let the bigger questions be addressed separately.

If anyone's interested, There are currently three libraries with CMake 
files in them: compute, hana, and serialization and test

compute and hana have a CMakeLists.txt file in the library root as well 
as other CMakeLists.txt files in subdirectories.

test is a compiled library that has CMakeLists.txt files in it's build 
and test subdirectories

serialization is a compiled library that has one CMakelists.txt file in 
a subdirectory named CMake

There's quite a bit of variety among all these implementations.  Looking 
at them, it would be alot of work to reconcile them.  Given my 
esperience with CMake scripting this is not a surprise.  I found in my 
case that it required lots and lots of trial and error and I never felt 
I really had it "right".  I just stopped when it created my XCode 
project.  No one's ever complained about it, so I'm really doubtful that 
anyone has ever tried aside from my self. My Xcode project builds and 
tests about 1000 tests - it takes a while to start up since it seems 
that XCode likes to pre-compile everything it can in order to make 
intellisense work.  Building is pretty fast and text execution is very 
fast. I've been using it for about two (or three?) years without much 
problem (once it gets setup !!!) so that speaks well for it.  From my 
perspective, the main attraction is that it sets up my XCode project 
correctly - for 1000 tests this is a big deal.  With my old msvc setup 
setting up such a project by hand was an ongoing pain.  When I want to 
run my "official" boost tests I use boost build with all the compilers I 
have on this machine in debug/release static/shared 32/64. This takes a 
while. Then I check in the changes and watch fail on environments I 
don't have.

I don't really have a point there, just a little factual experience to 
keep things in perspective.