On 5/15/16 8:32 PM, David Sankel wrote:
We recommend and propose that the Boost Guidelines are modified to allow library authors, at their own discretion, to include a 'CMakeLists.txt' file in their library's top-level directory.
Hmmm - as far as I understand it, any policy has been a requirement that libraries include build, src, doc and test directories and that that these include boost build scripts. I don't think that "policy" has ever prohibited including anything else at the author's discretion. The serialization library has a number of "extra" top level directories: test_util, performance, cmake. A number of libraries have stuff in the doc directory which is special. It doesn't have a top level cmake file because I chose not to do this, not because I thought it violated some "policy". I've been doing this for many years. So I don't there's a lot to discuss. Though it's off topic - CMake isn't all that much better than boost build - actually it's not even comparable as it doesn't do the the same thing. Robert Ramey