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Subject: Re: [boost] Fwd: Installing CMake configuration files
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-10-20 21:52:21


Steven Watanabe wrote:

> That seems a bit worrisome to me, as I really don't like the idea of
> having a mixed-state sytem in the long term. It'll be really easy to end
> up with targets that use both the global /boost/headers and the library
> specific include paths. I can live with that as a temporary measure, but
> it's still ugly.

This is unavoidable - in the interim or otherwise - unless we either somehow
solve, or outright eliminate, cyclic dependencies. Until then, libraries
that form a cycle have to remain /boost//headers.


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