Re: [boost] BCM - Boost CMake Modules request for endorsement

Subject: Re: [boost] BCM - Boost CMake Modules request for endorsement
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-09-20 22:26:01

On 9/20/2017 6:01 PM, paul via Boost wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So the Daniel Pfeifer has agreed to be the review manager for the Boost Cmake
> Modules. I would like ask for an endorsement so we can schedule a formal
> review for BCM.

I will make the endorsement.

I have also opened the issue of lack of CMake support for testing a 
compile, and testing a link, ala Boost Build, on the CMake developers 
list. Robert Ramey, among a few others, was helpful in getting the 
discussion noticed on the CMake users list and per suggestions there I 
reiterated my points on the CMake developers list and got an initial 
acknowledgement there. If others can chime in on the CMake developers 
list it would be helpful. I understand your code to emulate Boost Build 
compile tests, and I likewise have suggested a way for bcm to emulate 
Boost Build link tests, but I considered those solutions more of a 
kludge than anything, although the best we can do with CMake as it now 
exists to emulate Boost Build testing. So my effort on the CMake mailing 
lists is really to get the CMake developers to realize that while CMake 
has run-time testing, it does not have compile-time testing, which is a 
reality in the C++ programming world and certainly a reality for a 
number of Boost libraries.

> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> .
> 
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