Re: [boost] Moving the include directory to $BOOST_ROOT/include? (again)

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

On 6/2/2015 3:59 AM, Tom Kent wrote:

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On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 7:30 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:

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I want to reiterate my suggestion that we move Boost's include directory from $BOOST_ROOT to $BOOST_ROOT/include.

Our organization has been following the example in the first pages of the getting started guide [1][2] and using #include with $BOOST_ROOT in our include path, so changing that to 'include' would require major source changes to our (and presumably lots of others') code bases.

I think this is far too disruptive of a change for the benefits described.

Tom,

I think the suggestion is to have $BOOST_ROOT/include/boost, so no changes in the source code will be required. You will need a change to the -I option passed to the compiler, which is non-zero pain, but considerably less pain that changing every source file.

Also the proposal mentioned the $BOOST_ROOT/boost link for backward compatibility, so even the -I option is not necessary. FWIW, I support the proposal.