On 10.10.18 22:25, Roger Leigh via Boost wrote:
On 10/10/2018 16:02, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
On 10/10/18 1:24 AM, Roger Leigh via Boost wrote:
I think it's primarily useful for packaging standalone applications where there are no complex library dependencies. Certainly for Windows and MacOS X it makes sense. For packaging a set of libraries like Boost, I don't think it's as useful;
we already have good Boost packaging anyway, so I'd suggest ignoring it at least for now.
Hmmm - what is "Boost packaging" refering to?
I was referring to the existing packaging for the various Linux distributions, BSD ports, MacOS MacPorts/homebrew, vcpkg etc. I simply meant that the problem is already taken care of by others for the most part, and that CPack doesn't bring much (if any) added value on top of that.
I believe it would be interesting to distribute boost via Launchpad/PPA for Ubuntu. CPack can generate debian packages for that. An example that (used to) work with multiple packages: https://bitbucket.org/renficiaud/yayi-debian-ppa/src/master/debian/rules Raffi