>"John Maddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I've put together a small tool for managing boost dependencies called bcp
>> (for boost copy).
>>
>> The bcp utility is a tool for extracting subsets of Boost, it's useful
>> for
>> Boost authors who want to distribute their library separately from Boost,
>> and for Boost users who want to distribute a subset of Boost with their
>> application.
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> As usual comments etc are most welcome,
>
>All I can say is that this is totally awesome, and thank you.
It really is neat!
>> also should a utility/tool such as this go through the review >> process > >I don't think it needs to. We review libraries, but traditionally >tools are just checked in if they seem useful or are known to be >needed. This one is.
I agree with Dave. The tools stuff is basically an administrative function, and traditionally Boosters have been willing to leave the admin decisions to the moderators. I do think it is useful to ask for comments before adding a major section to tools.
I downloaded the .zip file and glanced at the contents. Looks very nice indeed. I'd say definitely add it to tools. Maybe in a directory with a more meaningful name than just bcp.
One additional thought: tools/inspect/cvs_iterator.hpp provides roughly similar functionality to some of the code in bcp. Maybe we should factor out the functionality so it is generally available for recursing through any (including non-Boost) CVS tree. (That's a quick thought, not a considered opinion:-)
Thanks!
--Beman
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