CMake TODO List

These are some features that we would like to implement in the CMake-based build system for Boost (in no particular order).

• Triage or fix bugs reported against the CMake component in Trac
• Regression testing:
  • For each library, automatically introduce a test that uses the "inspect" program to verify that the library meets all of Boost's coding and licensing requirements (and anything else that inspect checks).
• Modularization of documentation generation, so documentation for a single library can be generated and installed along with documentation for the other libraries.
• Determine how the "tools" directory should fit in with "libs". Right now, "tools" is disabled because it doesn't work well with modular libraries.
• Building and testing against an installed tree:
  • Allow a single Boost component's sources to be downloaded and built against an installed Boost
  • Allow regression tests to be built and executed against an installed Boost
  • Update regression-testing scripts to simulate a user's usage: build a Boost tree, build its installer, execute the installer, build the regression tests against the installed version (separately!), run regression tests and report the results.
  • Can one download, configure, and install a subset of components built against an installed tree and each other?
• "Modularize" the rest of the Boost libraries
• Add description, author, and maintainer information to the CMakeLists.txt files for all of the libraries.
• Testing on more platforms and tweaks for those platforms
• Add CMakeLists.txt files for regression tests for libraries new in 1.35.0 that don't already have them, e.g., asio.
• Generate and install pkgconfig files, so that Boost libraries can be found via pkgconfig