In some of my personal projects which depend on subset of C++ boost libraries, said libraries are bundled together in one of the repository's subfolders.
While this works very well, because boost version is fixed, no submodules need to be downloaded or system packages need to be installed and everything just compiles and runs, it becomes a headache if you would like to try to upgrade such bundled boost but you did not keep track of specific boost libraries which were thrown together.
This script is an attempt to solve this problem by performing archeological excavation of present boost header files and matching them against all header files distributed with specified boost release.
Suppose folder where your project stores boost include files is /repo/github/my_project/external/boost/include/boost and boost's version is 1.72.0. Then simply invoke archeo.py:
$ archeo.py -d /repo/github/my_project/external/boost/include/boost -v 1.72.0
Produced output will include identified libraries, as well as list of present header files which were not matched against any official boost library released with specified version.
usage: archeo.py [-h] [-d BOOST_FOLDER] [-v VERSION]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d BOOST_FOLDER, --boost-folder BOOST_FOLDER
Directory with boost include headers.
-v VERSION, --version VERSION
Assumed boost version, e.g. 1.80.0.
Python dependencies are listed in requirements.txt file.
This script and associated repository contents are released under MIT license.