Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-14 15:47:28

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:40 AM Roger Leigh via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 14/09/18 15:05, Alexander Grund via Boost wrote:
> The variant naming strategy brings a lot of pain and it's something I
> personally always turn off when I can, because all those name variants
> result in having to hardcode b2-specific mappings for all the
> combinations in every build system other than b2, **because only b2
> defines the names this way**.  It's truly horrible, and I don't know why
> it's liked so much within the boost community.  Am I the only one who
> suffers so much from it having to integrate it with other systems on
> multiple platforms?
>

Clarification.. It's not b2 doing this. It's the build scripts for building
Boost.

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