Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-09-14 14:20:48
Edward Diener wrote:
> On 9/14/2018 7:44 AM, Mike Dev via Boost wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > unless I'm encountering an overwhelming resistance to this idea here on
> > the ml, I intend to create a batch of PRs that introduce minimal cmake
> > support to a large subset of boost libraries (maybe even all).
>
> The practical problem for most libraries, which are largely header-only,
> is converting the library jamfile for tests and building docs into CMake
> terms.
That's not what the proposed minimal support is about (IIUC). The goal here
is for people to be able to use a local installation of Boost (as cloned
from Github, perhaps as a submodule) from their CMake projects by including
the top-level CMakeLists.txt and then linking to the appropriate imported
targets.
Tests, docs, are not in scope. Neither is building multiple variants,
staging, or installation.