Re: [Asset Stewardship] About the Beman Project

From: Nelson, Erik - 2 (erik.l.nelson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-09-17 18:48:09

Christian Mazakas wrote on Monday, September 16, 2024 12:49 PM

>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.

As a boost user, I've always appreciated that Boost can be bootstrapped directly from the downloaded sources... no need to install third-party tools on my multiple platforms that I don't have admin access to.

Erik

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