Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Request for a"PolicyReview"regarding 'CMakeLists.txt'
From: Paul Fultz II (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-20 12:43:00
> On May 20, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Paul Fultz II wrote:
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>> I think a better approach is to first defined a cmake module with common functionality for boost libraries(such as creating tests and packages).
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> Where?
Ideally, we would have a separate repo perhaps boostorg/cmake where this would reside(and can be installed using cmake).
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> In standalone deployments of e.g. Hana, the superproject isn't present, so this module would need to be somewhere in libs/hana. Which means that it can't be common.
The standalone build would require the cmake module to be installed first. The superproject would include it using git submodules.