Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-18 15:47:25

On 6/18/17 8:13 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> "P F" wrote:
> 
>> git clone https://github.com/boostorg/hana
>> cd hana
>> b2 install
> 
> Does anybody actually do this? 

Hmmm - what I do is

git clone https://github.com/boostorg/hana  // into my BOOST_ROOT
b2 headers

then I'm done.  It never occurred to me that that was alien.  Actually, 
even now, I can't think of what I would do instead.

It feels completely alien to me. Where
> would the headers go? What will happen to the already existing system 
> Boost installation? 

What if I want to uninstall?
I just would delete $BOOST_ROOT/libs/hana

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