On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:27 PM, David Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> wrote: > > on Fri Jan 09 2009, "Beman Dawes" <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote: > >> Is anyone planning to submit a BoostCon proposal for a talk, tutorial, >> or workshop on Boost CMake? >> >> Seems like this would be a natural to build momentum. > > I've been considering that.
Great! Here are some off the top of my head thoughts, intended to stimulate discussion: It seems to me that there are several different Boost CMake tasks someone might want to accomplish, and documentation and/or training needs to be oriented toward those tasks. The tasks might be broken down like this: 1) Build one or more libraries, possibly with variants. 2) Test one or more libraries locally. 3) Set up simple build and test configurations for a library that does not require any deep understanding of Boost CMake. 4) Learn enough about Boost CMake to be able to set up complex configurations, or set up configurations that do not follow the standard patterns. Be able to support other users and help maintain Boost CMake. Docs for tasks 1-3 should contain only material relevant to the task at hand. IOW, be very task oriented. For BoostCon, it would be great if there was one session that covered a bit of an overview and then how to accomplish tasks 1 and 2, and then another session (or sessions) were devoted to 3 and 4. The 1-2 session would be a prerequisite for the 3-4 session, at least for those with no prior exposure to CMake. --Beman _______________________________________________ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake