On 2018-09-26 05:02 PM, Raffi Enficiaud via Boost wrote:
Sure, but you do not see the dependency graph in its full extent, and this is a good thing: you want to see your direct dependencies, because those are the ones that you directly manage.
Right.
As soon as you (or any tool) start unrolling the chains of dependencies, it may becomes messy. By taking the previous examples -- very simple I have to say -- you may not even be aware of the 2nd copy of library "Z".
To avoid to get into grid-lock in the discussion (similar to Peter's argument) I'm assuming that each library manages its own dependencies, and "installing a library" will imply resolving them. And indeed, if you install any Boost library (apt-get, dnf, vcpkg, ...) these dependencies will have been taken care of by some upstream package manager. So let's consider this a resolved issue.
All I want is the ability to work on a Boost library project, compiling it against some other prerequisite (versioned) libraries, some of which may be part of Boost.
Yes, I understand.
Do you mind having the ones that are part of boost - but only the ones you need for working on your library - checked out/cloned on request?
I do. That's precisely the difference between your second use-case and the one I added, and I have explained what additional situation that would cover that aren't covered by the earlier ones. [...]
What I was saying before is the following. If I know that libX depends on libY, I can make it such that by cloning or setting up libX, I would like to get libY automatically.
Yes, I understand. I think that's a fine use-case to support, but it shouldn't be the only one.
If I need external libraries, I can specify them explicitly from the command line, or use facilities such as the cmake's find_package to get them from the OS or any other location.
I am fine with:
cmake -DLIB_GIL=ON -DLIB_JPEG_LOCATION=/some/path/on/disk
Yeah, and that's all I'm asking, only that rather than libjpeg I'd also like to be able to find Boost dependencies (e.g., filesystem, core, etc.) that way. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...