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Feature Request : checking in partial boost trees. #79
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It would be great if we could use boost-cmake to download boost, identify which modules we need and then only check those modules into git.
Then future calls to cmake could use the boost tree that was in git instead of downloading all of boost anew.
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Orphis commentedon Feb 26, 2019
There is #75 to download Boost from the git repository that is experimental. Downloading just a subset is tricky though as you would need to know the exact list of repositories you need.
What is the real use case behind it?
bryan-lunt commentedon Feb 26, 2019
Well, I wasn't thinking of downloading only a subset. I was thinking of having it download all of it, but then you can check a subset into your git repo. boost-cmake would then see that the parts you are asking for already exist and abstain from downloading.
Orphis commentedon Feb 27, 2019
Then, I think combining #75 and providing the fetch content source yourself, it would work. Can you give it a go maybe?
bryan-lunt commentedon Feb 27, 2019
I'll give it a try, eventually.