Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-18 23:15:28

"Easier integration with cmake" is. It the only concern. There's also
cross-compiling to iOS, android etc etc.

How to do this properly is fully documented in cmake (And provided free of
efort with polly) in bjam it's a total black art.

I am always left with the nagging feeling that something is wrong, because
despite following the instructions on stack overflow, there is no actual
documentation to convince me that all the voodoo in the jam files has
received the correct number of sacrificial virgins.

This is a sorry state of affairs for the worlds most popular c++ library.
It should be easy, no, automatic to include boost. After all, c++ without
boost is like [insert idiom about useless things here].

R

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 at 01:05, Rene Rivera via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 4:09 PM, P F via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > However, when I upgrade boost, I need to upgrade cmake as well. There
> > really shouldn’t be a coupling between cmake and boost, like that.
> Instead
> > each library can provide the cmake configuration, and we can update
> cmake’s
> > FindBoost module to look for these configuration files, or the user can
> > just call them directly with `find_package(boost_asio)`.
> >
>
> First.. Needing to upgrade cmake to deal with newer releases of Boost is,
> IMO, a design and implementation defect of cmake.
>
> Second.. Why not use something like Conan that doesn't care about what
> build system your dependencies use and will adjust to the build system you
> are using for your product?
>
>
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