Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of StartModDev


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Timestamp:
Dec 11, 2012, 9:31:05 PM (10 years ago)
Author:
Beman Dawes
Comment:

Add more directory structure explanation

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     44In other words, the directory structure of a library in {{{boost-root/libs}}} for modular Boost is the same as pre-modular Boost, except that it contains another sub-directory hierarchy, {{{include/boost/...}}}, where {...} represents the library's directories and header files that previously lived in {{{boost-root/boost}}}. The effect of this change in directory structure is that the library is now entirely self-contained in a single directory and its sub-directories.
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    4446A real library would also have additional sub-directories such as {{{doc}}}, {{{example}}}, and {{{src}}}, as described in the [http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Directory_structure directory conventions], but they are left out of {{{simple}}} for the sake of brevity.