Re: [Asset Stewardship] About the Beman Project

From: Christian Mazakas (christian.mazakas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-16 15:16:39

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM Thomas Fowlery via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> This is true for Visual Studio, but any build system should be able to
> generate compile_commands.json for clangd to use. It seems like even B2
> supports it now:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/build/commit/fbb7fb175a78f8b39dcd4714d06c910da8e9e468
>
> So meta build systems are definitely not a necessity :)
>

This is true but only as a technicality.

CMake is basically the de facto standard for most OSS projects.

It's easier to probably enumerate the OSS projects that _don't_ use CMake.

- Christian