Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-17 00:30:59

> * Boost sources would provide a compatible, drop-in replacement for the
>   'FindBoost' module that is distributed with CMake. A CMake-based
> application
>   could point to it and, instead of using the system Boost libraries, Boost
>   targets would be built from source as part of the user build.

Instead of nasty cmake 2 era FindBoost(), why can't end users use the
modern cmake 3 pattern:

```
find_package(boost COMPONENTS asio REQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(myprogram PRIVATE boost::asio)
```

No cmake innovation needed to do this. This is 100% vanilla cmake 3.

BTW David if you do decide to go down this route, you and the Steering
Committee should seriously consider contracting Stephen Kelly to advise
on doing this properly. He's the primary architect of cmake 3's
improvements. He knows more about how to do this right than *anybody* on
this list.

It would also make good on the way he was chased away from here for the
sin of changing other people's code without their permission despite
that Dave had asked him to and given him the svn commit privs to do so.
It would be the least the Steering Committee could do to put that wrong
right and officially say sorry.

Niall

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