Re: [boost] Proposal for moving Boost to CMake

On Jun 18, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Daniel James via Boost wrote:

On 18 June 2017 at 20:05, Louis Dionne via Boost wrote:

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It is also worth noting that people on this list that oppose vocally are Boost library developers or folks with deep involvement/knowledge of Boost.Build, which is a very small minority. This has become clear through years of anecdotal evidence (such as speaking to people at conferences). Based on this and previous failed attempts, I think it is unlikely that we'll be able to make a decision based solely on discussion on this list, and my opinion is that a top-down decision is required to make something (anything) happen, like for the Git modularization.

One difference with git modularization is that there was a lot of support for it. And I don't think it was a roaring success.

There is a lot support for this in the larger C++ community. I remember at C+Now2016, about 95% of the attendees raised their hands in support of moving to cmake. Among the boost developers the support may not be quite as high. I think it would be good to get some solid data on this.