Re: [boost] Separate Boost CMake mailing list

Subject: Re: [boost] Separate Boost CMake mailing list
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-25 13:26:28

On Jul 25, 2017 8:20 AM, "Edward Diener via Boost" <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

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.

The same situation happened with the git transition. The questions and
answers where informative to everyone. We kept it on the main list but
tagged with "[githelp]" so as to allow for either mental or programmatic
filtering.