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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>
> > jean-pierre charras - INPG wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > I agree.
> > > I am currently using this on my computer (and removed the boost 
> > > detection in the CmakeLists.txt file
> > > I copied the needed boost files in my working kicad devel directory. and 
> > > use them.
> > > I did not cleanup the boost files, just copied the full subdirectories 
> > > needed by the compilation, when a needed file was in a given sub directory
> > > (these boost files use 12 Mo )
> > >
> > > If you want, i can commit these files
> > Hold on, please take a quick look at this:
> >
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html
> >
> >
> > Don't know if this can be used, it might be more maintable, and make our 
> > repo smaller.
>
> This seems like a much more elegant solution to me. I just checked and
> Boost uses Subversion so it should work with too much problem. The URL
> is http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk. I don't know what the issues
> may be if we change our VCS. There has been some discussion about using
> Lauchpad which uses Bazaar as it's VCS.
>
> Wayne


svn co 
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/tags/release/Boost_1_40_0/boost 
<targetDirectory>


would be a good candidate. Cuts out all the crap, installs only the 
headers, and uses the latest released version.

This is basically the URL I said 3 weeks ago. But now we have an 
elegant way to trigger the command.

I tested this method this morning.

Dick