Re: [Asset Stewardship] About the Beman Project

From: Christian Mazakas (christian.mazakas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-16 16:49:26

On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 9:23 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> As a serendipitous data point, I was just made aware that the nice folks
> behind Compiler Explorer have enabled linking to compiled Boost libraries:
>
> https://godbolt.org/z/1fcoKra8n
>
> They build Boost with CMake and use the Github CMake release archives.
>

In a similar vein, vcpkg actually did the same thing: switched their
package files from using b2 to CMake.

In these kinds of cases, I think it's just that most projects can handle
CMake projects in some capacity whereas b2 is a strong outlier so when
applicable, it gets eschewed.

- Christian