Boost.CMake (or alt.boost) is the boost distribution that all the cool kids are using. The effort started in earnest at BoostCon ‘07; by the end of which it was possible to do a basic build of boost with cmake. In 2009, the project moved out to git version control. Today, Boost.CMake is stable, mature, and supported by the developers, a large base of expert users, and occasionally by the authors of CMake itself.
boost-cmake mailing list
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake
IRC
#boost-cmake on the freenode network
CMake home page
http://www.cmake.org
Source code
Boost.CMake is distributed separately from upstream boost. Code is in a git repository at http://gitorious.org/boost/cmake.git. These documents correspond to tag 1.41.0.cmake0. See also Hacking Boost.CMake with Git.
Tarballs
Tarballs and zipfiles are available at http://sodium.resophonic.com/boost-cmake/ in subdirectory 1.41.0.cmake0.
This documentation was created with Sphinx.
The source is in the restructuredtext files in subdirectory tools/build/CMake/docs/source/. Hack on them (see the documentation for Sphinx). When you’re ready to see the html:
make html
Once you’ve written a ton of docs, push them someplace where I can see them (or use git diff to send a patch).
The ‘alt’ is a reference to the alt.* Usenet hierarchy. Here, as in Usenet, alt stands for Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists. This independent effort explores and applies alternate techniques/technologies in the areas of build, version control, testing, packaging, documentation and release management.