Re: [boost] To modularize, or not to modularize. What is the plan?

Subject: Re: [boost] To modularize, or not to modularize. What is the plan?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-08 03:25:51

On 5/7/19 7:05 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:41 PM Peter Dimov via Boost 
>> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > Rene Rivera wrote:
>> >
>> > > * Ban relative use of inter-library dependencies.
>> >
>> > What does this mean?
>>
>> It means no doing "../../lib/thread/.." from some other lib to get at 
>> the build files or anything else.
> 
> How will the libraries refer to each other? <library>/boost//libname, 
> target_link_libraries(Boost::libname), and rely on someone to have made 
> these available somehow? (If we're dropping the superproject.)

wouldn't one just replace all instances of "../../lib/thread/.."  with
<boost/thread/...>

I did that with safe numerics to address some issue I don't remember 
now. I might have been related to the directory structure.

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