Re: [boost] proposal - modularize Boost build system

Subject: Re: [boost] proposal - modularize Boost build system
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-19 17:11:00

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> > Why is this so important for you? The difference is just one 
> > superproject shell and one tools/build. Is this a matter of principle, 
> > or are there technical reasons?
>
> Both. I want to control the environment in which my library is being built 
> (, tested, etc.), and thus I don't want to fetch that environment from a 
> repository and build it on-the-fly.

...

> I think it's perfectly normal that on some platforms the default (system) 
> version of a package is too old, so a newer version needs to be pulled in 
> from another repo ("testing", perhaps ?).

So you consider it perfectly normal to pull boost.build 1.64 from some 
"testing" repo, but completely unacceptable to checkout the boost-1.64.0 tag 
of github.org/boostorg/build?

I'm sorry, but this makes no sense to me.