Re: [boost] Boost tests with cmake

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost tests with cmake
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-07-29 16:13:52

On 7/29/2017 10:50 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Edward Diener wrote:
> 
>> On 7/29/2017 5:02 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> 
>> > I've given it some thought and I like the BCM approach; BCM should 
>> be a > library in libs/bcm (if we retain the name).
>>
>> Perhaps a tool in tools/bcm ?
> 
> One could argue for that, if we go by principle alone.
> 
> Pragmatically speaking, I prefer being able to submodule boostorg/foo 
> and boostorg/bcm side by side and then have `include(../bcm/bcm_deploy)` 
> in foo/CMakeLists.txt, instead of having to submodule foo as libs/foo 
> and bcm as tools/bcm and then have `include(../../tools/bcm/bcm_deploy)` 
> in foo/CMakeLists.txt.

Understood, but bcm is really a tool to work with Boost libraries rather 
than what is ordinarily thought off as a Boost library itself. What will 
end-users think if we mix tools and libs in the same hierarchy <g> ?