On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM Daniele Lupo via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On 05/05/2025 23:45, Hassan Sajjad via Boost wrote:
Generally speaking your "benefits list" has quite bold statements
Are you proposing replacement of b2 for Boost or just yet another build system to the club?
These statements are based on concrete evidence. I am proposing to replace b2.
If I remember well, this is not the first time that you want to propose it, and I was against it for different reasons:
- We are already trying to replace the build system with cmake. - CMake can have pros and cons, but actually it's one of biggest standard in C++ development. Changing a "boost only" build system for another system that will used only for boost (I don't see hmake widely used) it's pretty useless.
Fwiw, I've made some good progress on this front and I've come up with this tool here: https://github.com/cmazakas/c2 This is a pure CMake b2-like runner for tests. Because it supports arbitrary CMake targets, it can be extended even for something like docs. - Christian