Re: [boost] CMake, modular Boost, and other stories

On 2019-04-26 5:58 p.m., David Sankel via Boost wrote:

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 12:41 PM Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

...

That is, only support

find_package(Boost COMPONENTS filesystem)

and drop

find_package(boost_filesystem)

Thoughts?

+1. Aside from the other benefits mentioned:

- for better or worse this is the already established Boost CMake user API. If we make a second, competing API both will need to be effectively supported forever. Doesn't seem worth it.

- while some have proposed that Boost become simply an award we attach to libraries that are good enough, that certainly isn't what we have now or will have in the foreseeable future. Boost is a thing you can download, install, and use. Components are a great fit for Boost.

With that kind of attitude we are never going to make any progress. :-( Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...