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On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On 10/07/2007, at 15:29, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>>> Now that you bring that up... we'd shorten boost's build times a  
>>> lot by splitting each binary library in its own package.  It  
>>> should be fairly trivial, but when I proposed it people seemed to  
>>> dislike the idea :-(
>>
>> IIRC the monotone folks worked on getting rid of boost altogether,  
>> which I'd prefer over surgery on boost.
>
> IIRC, they got rid of the date_time library only (and can't  
> remember the exact reasons).  I'm not sure getting rid of all Boost  
> usage is the plan, though.  Some of the functionality offered by it  
> is really great and simplifies code a lot.
>
> Anyway, the boost surgery we are talking about is, I think,  
> trivial.  The current Makefiles already allow building a library  
> individually (see boost-python), so adding packages for every  
> binary library is a fairly easy task.  As a result, we'd get finer- 
> grained dependencies, which is a good thing in my eyes.  (A while  
> ago we discussed that such things should be achieved by being able  
> to generate many different binary packages from a single source  
> one, but we are not there yet.)
>

Can we use option.mk framework for this ? or we are going to create  
ton of new packages :). e.g boost-python can be boost builded  
withoption -* python default option can be *. Does this make sense or  
not :)?

>>> BTW, extatic?  What was the correct word? ;-)
>>
>> Extatic? Hyped-up? I don't care. :)
>>
>
> I've been told it's ecstatic, hence why I couldn't find it in the  
> dictionary ;-)
>
> -- 
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
>
>

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