Status of devel/boost upgrade

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Alexander Churanov (alexanderchuranov at gmail.com) wrote:

> I've already did it about a month ago. Currently I'm testing the
> solution. There are two ideas about splitting boost:

Woo, this is great!

> 1) Split it into bjam, source-libs, shared-libs, python-libs and docs.
> This is what was actually done by me.
> 2) Split it into bjam, docs and a separate port for each library. This
> needs discussion.

Not sure if splitting it into many small libraries is a good idea. How
many are there, btw? Is it a port per libboost_*so, or per
include/boost/* ?

Also splitting shared libs and source libs is a strange idea - there
will be confusion on which port does specific library belong and it
seems very likely that most boost-using ports will depend on both
ports.

Boost-python is a must to be split into separate port because it
has an extra dependency, docs too, because not many people need
them, bjam, well, because it's a build tool, and everything else
may be left in a single port.

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