Re: [boost] CMake, modular Boost, and other stories

Subject: Re: [boost] CMake, modular Boost, and other stories
From: David Sankel (camior_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-04-26 22:59:37

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 6:09 PM Stefan Seefeld <stefan_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On 2019-04-26 5:58 p.m., David Sankel via Boost wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 12:41 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
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> That is, only support
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>     find_package(Boost COMPONENTS filesystem)
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> and drop
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>     find_package(boost_filesystem)
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> Thoughts?
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>
> +1. Aside from the other benefits mentioned:
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> - for better or worse this is the already established Boost CMake user API.
> If we make a second, competing API both will need to be effectively
> supported forever. Doesn't seem worth it.
>
> - while some have proposed that Boost become simply an award we attach to
> libraries that are good enough, that certainly isn't what we have now or
> will have in the foreseeable future. Boost is a thing you can download,
> install, and use. Components are a great fit for Boost.
>
> With that kind of attitude we are never going to make any progress. :-(
>

What am I missing Stefan?