Re: [boost] [cmake] Where to discuss CMake in Boost?

On 24 March 2018 at 03:10, P F via Boost wrote:

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On Mar 23, 2018, at 10:46 AM, Richard via Boost wrote:

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In article , Mateusz Loskot via Boost writes:

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For instance, I wish Boost offered CMake support library, review eg. BCM and let it in. I'm not speaking of building Boost with CMake, no! I mean joint development of support scripts for Modern CMake which are useful for those Boost library developers who wish to add CMake configuration (along the official BB2), for convenience. I think such bunch of Boost for CMake scripts would foster better common practices.

OK, I'd consider myself moderately familiar with CMake, but by no means an expert. However, when I read the above paragraph, I have no idea what you are talking about. Can you be more specific?

I think he is talking about installing usage requirements(ie confi.cmake file or pkgconfig files).

Or perhaps he is referring to the general utilities it provides for setting up tests among other things?

Currently, I mean the latter - during my initial attempts aimed to allow use of CMake Boost.GIL development, building tests and examples, etc. I also guess if there is common CMake scripts module, then libs/hof doesn't have to maintain local copy of BCMTest.cmake libs/callable_traits doesn't have to write macro callable_traits_append_flag libs/hana also doesn't have to write macro macro setflag and peraps host copy of CheckCxxCompilerSupport.cmake Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net