Re: [boost] CMake, modular Boost, and other stories

On 2019-04-23 4:00 p.m., James E. King III via Boost wrote:

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM Rene Rivera via Boost wrote:

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I disagree. In my ideal world the "Boost" package wouldn't exist at all and you would only install/use/find the individual Boost libraries. Anything else is either living in the past or a convenient transitional method.

One look at https://pdimov.github.io/boostdep-report/develop/module-overview.html is convincing enough to me that there are far too many dependencies to consider boost anything except a single packaged, versioned entity with many components.

That's a strange statement to make, as it suggests a false dichotomy. We haven't even talked about the granularity of the "modules" yet ! I understand there are many strongly interconnected libraries in Boost. However, there are also quite a few that no other Boost library depends on, and which therefore could easily be considered stand-alone. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...