Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-14 19:51:46

On 9/14/18 11:05 AM, Edward Diener via Boost wrote:
> On 9/14/2018 10:20 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
>> Edward Diener wrote:

>> That's not what the proposed minimal support is about (IIUC). The goal 
>> here is for people to be able to use a local installation of Boost (as 
>> cloned from Github, perhaps as a submodule) from their CMake projects 
>> by including the top-level CMakeLists.txt and then linking to the 
>> appropriate imported targets.
>>
>> Tests, docs, are not in scope. Neither is building multiple variants, 
>> staging, or installation.
> 
> In which case CMake support in Boost evidently means that Boost Build 
> will continue as the means to do tests and build the docs. That is fine 
> with me but must be understood by the Boost Steering Committee and Boost 
> developers/maintainers as part of Boost using CMake.

Hmmm - Where is the scope defined? I don't think there is a concensus on 
this.

Robert Ramey

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