Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> writes:
Vladimir Prus wrote:
Again, I'm thinking of platforms such as Fedora or Debian, which both have their own package management tools. If I want to develop software that is to use boost rpm or deb packages, I'd much appreciate some standardization of how to query the boost package(s) about required flags. If this isn't done as part of the boost project itself, packagers will do it, but probably not in a consistent way.
If this is done by Boost.Build, it's required the all packages use Boost.Build too. If they build boost in some other way, then there's nothing we can do.
Indeed. The point is really to make it *possible* for them to do it without boost developers having to care.
I don't understand. What is "it" and what does it mean to "care" in this case? -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com