The proposal is to add to the Boost library guidelines the requirement that a XYZConfig.cmake module be provided with the installation of any Boost.XYZ library. This module would simply export the proper CMake targets, which would solve the problem of integrating Boost with a CMake-based build system and would remove the need for the custom FindBoost support in CMake. This would not make Boost easier to build, but once built and installed, it would at least be trivial to use _properly_ from a CMake project. This does not require changing the build system of existing libraries to CMake.
This seems more sensible, but adding a guideline won't do anything. Someone needs to volunteer to create the pull requests, and maintain it in the future.
Sorry, the original message should have said "add to the Boost library REQUIREMENTS", not GUIDELINES. Requirements are actionable, guidelines are not. Louis -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Proposal-for-moving-Boost-to-CMake-tp4695... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.