Re: [boost] To modularize, or not to modularize. What is the plan?

On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 7:24 AM James E. King III via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:06 PM Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

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Rene Rivera wrote:

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On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 8:41 PM Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

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Rene Rivera wrote:

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* Ban relative use of inter-library dependencies.

What does this mean?

It means no doing "../../lib/thread/.." from some other lib to get at

the

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build files or anything else.

How will the libraries refer to each other? <library>/boost//libname, target_link_libraries(Boost::libname), and rely on someone to have made these available somehow? (If we're dropping the superproject.)

Wouldn't we be able to make much simpler builds for each repository if we assume a third party package manager will handle acquiring our dependencies and tell us how to leverage them?

Yes.

If you want to stick with b2 we could add a b2 generator to conan so it would spit out some b2 rules,

That already exists < https://docs.conan.io/en/latest/reference/generators/b2.html>.

otherwise we could further simplify things by using cmake builds in each repository instead of b2.

Sure.. Actually you wouldn't care what build system a particular library author used. As you could use whatever build system you prefer to both produce and consume the libraries. -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net