Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: David Sankel (camior_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-17 05:59:55

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:47 AM, P F <pfultz2_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Jun 16, 2017, at 11:51 PM, David Sankel <camior_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 12:27 AM, P F <pfultz2_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> > On Jun 16, 2017, at 6:44 PM, David Sankel via Boost <
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>> > * There would be a list of CMake guidelines that we'd use.
>> > * Boost libraries should be buildable in isolation and use
>> >  'find_package(Boost...)' to discover their Boost dependencies.
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>> I am just wondering how this would work. In general, this would require
>> all the libraries to be built together. I don’t think libraries
>> individually can provide components.
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> It doesn't require all the libraries to be built together and, yes,
> libraries can provide components. See this talk: https://www.youtube.com/
> watch?v=3eH4hMKl7XE
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> Sorry, that was worded poorly. Rather a library can not add additional
> components to a previously installed library(not without some strange
> hackery).
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Ah, I see what you mean now. I didn't mean to imply we should support that
use case.