Feature Request : checking in partial boost trees.

[bryan-lunt]

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.

[Orphis]

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]

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]

Then, I think combining #75 and providing the fetch content source yourself, it would work. Can you give it a go maybe?

[bryan-lunt]

I'll give it a try, eventually.