Re: Moving "sub" libraries to their own repositories

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-03-08 20:17:41

On 3/8/23 23:07, Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:
> We have (very) few cases where within a repository we have more than one
> library inside a repository. One example is boostorg/functional whose
> meta/libraries.json has:
> 
> - functional
> - functional/factory
> - functional/forward
> - functional/overloaded_function
> 
> See: https://github.com/boostorg/functional/blob/master/meta/libraries.json
> 
> What do we think about having separate repositories for the last three
> above? e.g.  The second one would be boostorg/functional_factory
> 
> Some might be better collapsed into the first library (i.e. become part of
> just "functional").
> 
> We haven't been allowing this for newer libraries, but it would be nice to
> remove it from these few existing cases too.
> 
> Ultimately meta/libraries.json in each library repository would have just
> one  library entry.

Why not just merge them all into Functional? Their headers are already
merged, only docs and tests need to be merged.