Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-20 04:29:07

On 19 May 2016 at 23:35, Stefan Seefeld <stefan_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Fedora has been doing the same for many years. In fact, I'm not aware of
> any Linux distro that doesn't ship individual Boost libraries, which is
> why I have been promoting to do this modularization "inhouse", to avoid
> to put that burden on package maintainers, and different distros to vary
> slightly in their way to implement this, causing headaches for users on
> those platforms.

OK, so any ideas how to do that? I assume they don't need separate
tarballs, so maybe just some description of how to build libraries,
which binaries require other binaries, and which files go into which
package?