Re: [boost] [Boost][CMake] Status of cmake support.

On Feb 20, 2018, at 6:26 PM, Louis Dionne via Boost wrote:

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:18 AM, Mike via Boost wrote:

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Hi everyone, since I couldn't find any official information about that, I wanted to ask if there is any new information about the cmake support in boost (since the initial discussion on the ml after the steering committee's announcement)?

Is there some agreement on how to do the transition or at least a

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popular formal/informal proposal?

As far as I can tell, the current status is that we're waiting for a formal review of Paul Fultz's BCM library [1] to happen, which is currently blocked on getting a review manager. The goal of BCM is to provide a few CMake utilities to make it easier for Boost libraries to implement support for CMake in a consistent manner. If BCM is seen as the proper way to do CMake within Boost, I guess the logical next step would be to start using BCM to add CMake support in the libraries. Unless I'm mistaken, Paul has already basically done this for all libraries [2]; if library authors don't want to spend time adding CMake support themselves, it should be possible to just copy the files in [2] for their library. Paul, you can correct me if anything here is incorrect.

That is correct. I have built a collection cmake modules to aid in building cmake scripts. We are looking for a review manager for this, as the original manager will not be able to. In the mean time, I have done an initial implementation of cmake across boost, as a proof-of-concept. After the cmake modules are accepted in boost, the goal would be to integrate these initial cmake files across boost after author’s modifications. Thanks, Paul