Bringing this up because of the recent discussion in the 1.70.1 thread. And of course because this is the week that a certain BSC meets. Hence I thought I would clarify what I've meant my a modular Boost all this time. A modular Boost, to me, means a Boost that first and foremost a collection of independently consumable C++ libraries. That would have the following aspects to it: * An end user or library author can obtain a single Boost library of their choice and use it in their project, assuming they also obtain the appropriate dependencies of that library. * BoostOrg would not produce a monolithic, combined, merged, etc distribution. * BoostOrg would produce collectively tested milestone modular distributions. Sounds lovely right? ...I'll leave the discussion of merits to responses herein ;-) What would it take to reach that modular goal? Why do I keep saying we've been working on this for ages and ages? Briefly here's what it would take to get there (not in any particular order): * Abandon the single header include tree. * Abandon the monolithic build infrastructure. * Ban relative use of inter-library dependencies. * Explicit declaration of inter-library dependencies. * Strict normalized library layout. * Remove, and ban, dependency cycles at the inter-library user consumable granularity. There's probably more items that I've forgotten above. But this should be enough to converse about. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net