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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] CMakeLists.txt missing copyright and licence
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-30 22:27:46


On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Jeremiah Willcock <jewillco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2009, troy d. straszheim wrote:
>
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>>
>>> This is causing lots of inspect failures. See
>>> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/inspect-trunk.html
>>>
>>> I'd like to see these cleared ASAP so I can pester developers about their
>>> real inspect problems during the bug sprint. Since some of these files are
>>> generated automatically, the generator needs fixing too.
>>>
>>
>> I'm getting on a plane in a few hours, will be offline, back in about 10
>> days,  sorry I can't get to this.
>>
>> If nobody else steps up, please feel free to just delete the
>> CMakeLists.txt files, module.cmake files, and build/tools/CMake directory (I
>> think that's everything)...  I can readd later without much difficulty and
>> really don't want to hold anything up.   The trunk is lagging behind the
>> release at the moment anyway.
>
> The CMake-based build system should not be removed, even temporarily, in my
> opinion.  Nick Edmonds and I depend on it because it is the only way to run
> the tests for Boost.MPI and the parallel parts of Boost.Graph.  In
> particular, it is essential to be able to run the Boost.Graph tests while
> developing that library.  Therefore, I request that you do not remove this
> infrastructure.  Thank you.

Don't worry, I'm not planning to delete it. The copyright and
licensing can wait until Troy gets back.

--Beman


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