Re: [Boost-cmake] CMake modularization update

Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] CMake modularization update
From: Michael Jackson (mike.jackson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-02 09:35:29

On Nov 7, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Doug Gregor wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Michael Jackson
> <mike.jackson_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>  Any ideas on what we would like to keep "un-modularized" for now?  
>> Looking
>> at the dependency
>> graph here are my own thoughts on which libraries should probably  
>> be kept
>> un-modularized for now:
>>
>>       mpl
>>       functional
>>       integer
>>       detail
>>       utility
>>       exception
>>       function
>>       preprocessor
>>       concept_check
>>       concept
>>       config
>>       type_traits
>>       static_assert
>>       iterator
>>       tuple
>>       smart_ptr
>
> Most of these look like they belong in the core. "detail" isn't a
> library. I bet "function", "iterator", "tuple", and "smart_ptr" could
> be pulled out and made into modular libraries, since they shouldn't
> have all *that* many dependencies.
>
>  - Doug

Did we want to proceed with this refactoring? And if so did we want to  
actually move the "core" stuff into BOOST_ROOT/libs/core or just leave  
it in BOOST_ROOT/boost?

Mike