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: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-05-08 18:24:15

On 19-05-08 09:35:49, Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:
>On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 9:21 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
>wrote:
>
>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>
>> > Sure.. Actually you wouldn't care what build system a particular library
>> > author used. As you could use whatever build system you prefer to both
>> > produce and consume the libraries.
>>
>> I really don't understand how this is supposed to work. What do we put in
>> the repo, and how will this enable building a Boost library with whatever
>> build system?
>>
>
>I'm not, James is though, saying we should do this.. just that it's
>possible. But one way to do it is to agree on an API for building, testing,
>etc. Such an API would be up for design. It could be we have bash/bat/etc,
>or it could be a single build system, or it could be a single package
>manager that supports the use case.

And, API to integrate documentation into the global book at boost.org

<day-dreaming>
It could be as 'simple' as agreement on common format individual libraries produce.
It is submitted to boost.org, consumed by processors to aggregate or produce
single unified-looking documentation.
</day-dreaming>

Best regards,
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