Re: [boost] A retrospect on 'CMakeLists.txt' policy review

Subject: Re: [boost] A retrospect on 'CMakeLists.txt' policy review
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-03 11:31:15

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Paul Fultz II <pfultz2_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 2, 2016, at 8:50 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >
> >  All of these arguments depend solely on the
> > existence of build/, regardless of whether
> > it contains a CMakeLists.txt or not.  For separately
> > compiled libraries, build/ *must* exist because
> > that's the layout that we've chosen for Boost.Build.
>
> Thats the layout for Boost.Build, but what about cmake?

It's not a Boost Build layout.. It's a "Boost C++ Libraries" layout. It's
what the community of library authors decided as a directory layout for
libraries. We are free to change it after discussions, consensus, etc. But
probably not a discussion for this thread ;-)

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