Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> writes:
Since we just had a release, should be re-visit moving all the mandatory source code into a separate directory together? For the newbies, this means changing the
BOOST_ROOT . libs .. date_time ... src .. graph ... src
into something like
BOOST_ROOT . src .. date_time .. graph
Right now, using mandatory source files means scrambling into a lot of directories figuring out what to add. There is stuff like Boost-Build, but it doesn't work for everyone, and I feel that it's a "cute" overkill solution. No matter the plan there are some caveats:
1. Some platforms require some libraries to be put in separate DLLs. 2. You have to exclude the driver files from Boost-Test, since each includes a "main" function. (And if you actually are doing testing, then you know that you can include at most one driver file.)
Besides the caveats, you can just dump all the mandatory source code into your IDE's project file (or make file) and don't worry Boost-Build.
It isn't true. Some libraries need specific compiler/linker options on specific platforms. Not to mention that the test library has several (I think) source files containing main() and you can't just link them all together indiscriminately. Whatever you think of Boost.Build, I don't see how underkill can work, and I don't see how libs/xxx/src/... is much worse than src/xxx/... -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com