[boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

-----Original Message----- From: Boost On Behalf Of Edward Diener via Boost Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 8:05 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Edward Diener Subject: Re: [boost] [cmake] Pull request announcement

On 9/14/2018 10:20 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

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Edward Diener wrote:

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On 9/14/2018 7:44 AM, Mike Dev via Boost wrote:

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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.

In which case CMake support in Boost evidently means that Boost Build will continue as the means to do tests and build the docs. That is fine with me but must be understood by the Boost Steering Committee and Boost developers/maintainers as part of Boost using CMake.

I'm pretty sure the desire of the steering committee, many users and probably A lot of boost maintainers is that b2 gets completely replaced by a cmake based solution someday (e.g. in the form of BCM). However, I as a user would be very happy to at least have a solution that covers 80% of my use cases and that can be implemented now (by me alone if necessary) instead of further hoping that this full replacement comes "soon"