From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-03-08 20:17:41
On 3/8/23 23:07, Glen Fernandes via Boost wrote:
> We have (very) few cases where within a repository we have more than one
> library inside a repository. One example is boostorg/functional whose
> meta/libraries.json has:
>
> - functional
> - functional/factory
> - functional/forward
> - functional/overloaded_function
>
> See: https://github.com/boostorg/functional/blob/master/meta/libraries.json
>
> What do we think about having separate repositories for the last three
> above? e.g. The second one would be boostorg/functional_factory
>
> Some might be better collapsed into the first library (i.e. become part of
> just "functional").
>
> We haven't been allowing this for newer libraries, but it would be nice to
> remove it from these few existing cases too.
>
> Ultimately meta/libraries.json in each library repository would have just
> one library entry.
Why not just merge them all into Functional? Their headers are already
merged, only docs and tests need to be merged.