Re: [boost] Just another GSoC project idea: Create a Bjam clone based on the Boost libraries

Boris Schäling wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:50:56 +0100, Stephen Kelly wrote:

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[...]The blocker to moving to CMake is acceptance of it as a goal by the boost community. That's not something for a GSoC to resolve.

Steve,

do you know whether this is blocking the next release of the Boost libraries (1.56.0)?

I don't understand the question. I can't tell you anything about what is or is not blocking Boost 1.56.0. My impression that moving to CMake is not a goal for the Boost community come from mails like these: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/248928/focus=248956 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/248928/focus=249009 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/26227/focus=26252 Clearly, even if some people want to move to CMake, others do not. I am not here to convince anyone. I designed and implemented many features in CMake 3.0 (due RealSoonNow) specifically for boost use-cases, eg INTERFACE_LIBRARY: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/git-next/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.html#int... The innuendo on the boost.build list that a CMake migration would go anything like the migration to fractured (not modularized!) git repos is unfounded. Technically, there are no blockers. The only blocker is that it is not actually a goal of Boost as far as I can tell, and no one is championing changing that (I am certainly not volunteering to attempt to convince anyone). If someone decides to champion that, the technical backing is there. I expect there are minor issues to solve which we have not solved yet, but I have no reason to think that there are blockers. Thanks, Steve.