On 19.06.2017 15:48, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
Stefan Seefeld wrote:
What would it take for Boost to support individual libraries to be built with anything else ?
In what scenario? Standalone, or as part of the Boost release?
Both, as the goal is not to add more infrastructure, but to replace it.
If standalone, it's up to you to support whatever you like.
If as part of the release, this would mean that everyone who wants to build a Boost release would now need to have your preferred build system installed. Currently, we don't require anything else, as Boost.Build is part of the release. So this would be a significant regression in usability.
I understand. This is a bit of a vicious circle: Right now Boost is always built as a whole, so lots of people do it. In a modular Boost world, fewer people would build all of boost, as it's much easier to build just the libraries people need. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...