On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:35:58 -0400, David Cole via cmake-developers wrote: > Honestly, KWSys has always seemed like a boost-avoidance mechanism > from an outsider's perspective. Perhaps it should be replaced with > boost equivalents in projects that need to be packaged for Fedora. > > I assume all the boost libraries are already packaged/available.
While I do love me some Boost, it doesn't provide process launching APIs, so you'd still need to handle that. Plus, Boost's lack of a stable API/ABI across the large range of versions that would need to be supported (e.g., there is no Boost release which supports VS7.1 and VS2015 at the same time, nevermind some of the more obscure compilers CMake expects to self-host on). And you'd need to both support filesystem2 and filesystem3 in client code, so it's not just a problem at the "get boost building" level. IMO, it would be *much* worse since CMake would have to ship with multiple versions of Boost, each subsetted and likely patched. That is hardly better. --Ben -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers