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

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Request for a "Policy Review" regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-19 18:28:51

Le 20/05/16 à 00:09, Paul Fultz II a écrit :

>
> There is already library's that do this(such as hana and compute),

This is not an argument.

> so there
> hasn't been a technical problem with the tooling.

Nobody said there is one, people rather said there is no technical issue 
in having your CMakeLists.txt in ./build or ./cmake or ./anyothersubdir 
(something that you seems to omit quite often).

> However, we would like the
> wording in the guidelines to state in a more explicit manner that this is
> acceptable in order to avoid possible future problems.

There is an *IF* missing there.