Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 1:47 AM, P F wrote:

On Jun 16, 2017, at 11:51 PM, David Sankel wrote:

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 12:27 AM, P F wrote:

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On Jun 16, 2017, at 6:44 PM, David Sankel via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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* There would be a list of CMake guidelines that we'd use. * Boost libraries should be buildable in isolation and use 'find_package(Boost...)' to discover their Boost dependencies.

I am just wondering how this would work. In general, this would require all the libraries to be built together. I don’t think libraries individually can provide components.

It doesn't require all the libraries to be built together and, yes, libraries can provide components. See this talk: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=3eH4hMKl7XE

Sorry, that was worded poorly. Rather a library can not add additional components to a previously installed library(not without some strange hackery).

Ah, I see what you mean now. I didn't mean to imply we should support that use case.