Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-18 23:41:23

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Richard Hodges <hodges.r_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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].
>

I've mentioned this some number of times in the past decade or more.. Using
Boost should be as easy as dropping the source code into your project (and
hence use your build system) and build as needed for your project.  And
I've asserted that libraries that don't document how to do that should
consider having a bug.

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