On 07/21/17 23:35, Florent Castelli via Boost wrote:
On 21/07/2017 22:15, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
I don't think it is realistic to convert the whole Boost in a single release time frame, unless you want to put the transition as a release criteria (which would be a bad idea). It would make sense to either release half-baked support for CMake for a few Boost releases or to follow the switch-the-whole-Boost approach: work on libraries in the background and then merge it to develop/master for all libraries. In the former case there's that potentially endless period of having two build systems.
You could possibly ask developers from other major project who transitioned to CMake what was their experience. LLVM moved exclusively to CMake not too long ago and it would certainly be interesting for people doubting it is possible to talk to their build engineers and developers. Note that some people (certainly not everyone) are quite happy with the transition, I saw again some message the other day from people loving the new changes in the latest CMake and it made LLVM compile much faster.
I don't follow LLVM development and not familiar with their specifics, but I suspect their organization is different from Boost. Do they have 100+ more or less independent libraries, each having its maintainers and preferences, with no central government?