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Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Request for a "Policy Review" regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-19 18:20:56


Le 20/05/16 à 00:01, Paul Fultz II a écrit :
>
>
> On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 3:43:01 PM UTC-5, Raffi Enficiaud wrote:
>>
>> Le 19/05/16 à 19:57, Paul Fultz II a écrit :
[snip]
>>>
>>> We are saying its inconvenient and we want it changed.
>>
>> But... are you asking for a change, or are you trying to enforcing it?
>>
>
> We are asking for a change to allow CMakeLists.txt at the top-level
> directory
> of the individual library repo at the library author's discretion. We are
> not
> trying to force library authors to put a cmake there, that is up to the
> library author.

Let me rephrase: are you trying to enforce the possibility for having
the CMakeLists.txt at the top-level directory of individual libraries?
Or are you asking if it would be possible, and accept any other
conclusion than the one you want?


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