Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: mike.dev_at_[hidden]
Date: 2018-09-15 08:06:54

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost <boost-bounces_at_[hidden]> On Behalf Of Peter Dimov
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 6:52 PM
> 
> mike wrote:
> 
> > Frankly, I don't see the advantage to split such a trivial file:
> 
> The advantage, as I already stated, is that when the dependencies change
> (which they do), you can just regenerate dependencies.cmake with
> boostdep
> (which can be automated) instead of editing CMakeLists.txt by hand.

Well, personally I think that is backwards: Taking a new dependency should be
a deliberate act that I manually document in my build file (many boost libraries 
already have far too many internal dependencies). Only then do I start
to (directly) include headers from that dependency.  

But in the end, each library maintainer is of course free to reject / alter / extend
the cmake file I'm going to propose. Again, the only important thing is to have
a common naming convention for the public targets