From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-18 15:53:49
David Abrahams wrote:
> A few days ago I started thinking about the implications of giving
> each Boost library a separate subtree of the repository, and it led me
> to some interesting places.
>
> * Start with the assumption that each library has a boost/ directory
> containing its subset of the headers it currently has. So, for
> example, Boost.Python would have
>
> boost/
> python.hpp
> python/
> ...
>
> where "..." above is identical to the current contents of
> $BOOST_ROOT/boost/python/
>
> * Our release process would merge the boost/ directories
>
> * To test a library from a source distribution, you'd need to get the
> boost/ directories of any libraries it depends on into the #include
> path.
Right. A fallout of this is that it all in a sudden becomes easy to
test a development snapshot of a single library against all prerequisite
libraries being from some stable state. Yay for modularity.
Regards,
Stefan
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