Doug Gregor wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Personally I find the embedding of toolset and version in library names to >> be problematic... in this case it makes the FindBoost.cmake really >> complicated and binds the (what should be simple) business of using the >> libraries to details that are utterly irrelevant here. > > While I, personally, agree with you, I just don't think this is > feasible. FindBoost is there so that people can use Boost from CMake, > and that includes using existing and future Boost releases that depend > on Boost.Build's mangled library names. I disagreed with the mangled > approach from the start, but we're stuck with it.
Really? I must've missed something. What practical alternative did we have at the start, and if we didn't need it then, why can't we quit now? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com _______________________________________________ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake
