Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake Announcement from Boost Steering Committee
From: Ion Gaztañaga (igaztanaga_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-18 21:23:49

On 18/07/2017 21:28, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:

> In that case why not have said that Boost libraries and tools will be 
> supporting CMake, which I think is fair enough given the wish to form a 
> consensus, but that Boost Build will continue to be developed/supported 
> for those libraries and tools that still want to rely on it as an 
> alternative. Given that we have people like Rene, Steven, and Thorsten, 
> among others, who still work to improve Boost Build, I see such a 
> decision to give up Boost Build entirely for CMake, before we even know 
> if we can actually duplicate all the functionality which Boost Build 
> provides in CMake, as a bad decision.

+1. I think the first step is to make Boost buildable with CMake while 
maintaining Boost.Build. After we have enough experience, we can decide 
to maintain both or drop one of them.

Ion