Re: [boost] Separate Boost CMake mailing list

Subject: Re: [boost] Separate Boost CMake mailing list
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-25 13:20:14

On 7/25/2017 9:09 AM, Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2017 8:05 AM, "Edward Diener via Boost" <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> 
> I think that a separate Boost CMake mailing list would be beneficial,
> rather than have all the discussion about the move to CMake, as the default
> Boost build system, as well as further uses of CMake with Boost libraries
> and tools, on the developers mailing list. This is similar to the way that
> Boost currently has a separate mailing list for Boost Build.
> 
> 
> Unless you are developing cmake itself the comparison doesn't hold. A
> separate list will exclude impromptu opinions that make such discussions
> fruitful.

My own limited experience with trying to understand and code with CMake 
has shown me that the support for CMake on the official CMake users list 
is atrocious. Maybe it is just me, but whatever questions I have ever 
asked on that mailing list have been completely ignored. So I have, and 
no doubt will have, many questions I will be asking Boost developers 
about CMake which I cannot understand from the official CMake 
documentation. Rather than use the Boost developers mailing list as the 
place to ask those questions I feel that a separate Boost mailing list 
would be better, so as not to clutter the developers mailing list with 
CMake related posts. But I will go with whatever others decide.

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