Re: [boost] [predef] FYI..

On Monday 29 July 2013 06:22:09 Marshall Clow wrote:

On Jul 29, 2013, at 1:27 AM, Andrey Semashev wrote:

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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

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FYI.. to those that care.. I checked in changes to SVN to inject the Predef library into Boost. I say inject because the source is not actually in the SVN repo, it's external and still in github. But is being brought in through their SVN interface.

Weren't externals banned from Boost SVN long time ago?

I couldn't find anything about it in the list archives. Maybe your google fu is better than mine.

I don't remember the exact post that made the official position regarding externals, but I remember there were concerns about them when we were switching to SVN. Here are some: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/122110/focus=122119 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/160386/focus=160491 To my recollection the final outcome was that we just don't use externals. I believe the branching issue still remains valid now for Boost.Predef (i.e. when branching 1.55, Boost.Predef will cause trouble).