Re: The new Boost 17.0.0

From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-12-01 22:56:02

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:46 PM Antony Polukhin <antoshkka_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020, 00:23 Glen Fernandes <glen.fernandes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 4:16 PM Antony Polukhin.
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>> > Wich brings me to a less radical idea: we may simplify acceptance of dependenceless library clones. Next step would be to provide predefined bcp'ed subsets of libraries (boost 17, boost 23?)
>>
>> One option is for that other library (DLL for C++17+) to still live
>> under the boostorg/dll repository -  i.e. it doesn't need to have its
>> own repository.
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>
> You mean folder structure like
> include/boost/dll/
> include/boost/dll17/
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> Would the bcp treat dependencies of include/boost/dll17 separately from include/boost/dll?

Yes, i.e. if we establish some convention like that, then the tools
should understand that.

This gives people much more freedom than have to have up to M*n
repositories (for n Boost libraries, and M different minimum-supported
standards) and especially have to go through an additional (M-1)
formal reviews for what is really the same library just switching
boost:: components to std:: ones.

Glen