Any possibility to make dependency on Boost not required(like ASIO does)?

[TheStormN]

Version of Beast

353

Steps necessary to reproduce the problem

It is a very nice thing that ASIO can be used without Boost. Given that Beast manly needs functionality from ASIO I think the request of such support should be not that far fetched.

All relevant compiler information

N/A

[ashtum]

This is not planned, as there is an ongoing effort to make Boost modular. Therefore, you would only need to install the Boost libraries that Beast depends on.

[TheStormN]

By looking at the Beast dependencies, even if Boost becomes modular, it would still require quite a lot of stuff:

target_link_libraries(boost_beast
  INTERFACE
    Boost::asio
    Boost::assert
    Boost::bind
    Boost::config
    Boost::container
    Boost::core
    Boost::endian
    Boost::intrusive
    Boost::logic
    Boost::mp11
    Boost::optional
    Boost::smart_ptr
    Boost::static_assert
    Boost::static_string
    Boost::system
    Boost::throw_exception
    Boost::type_traits
    Boost::utility
    Boost::winapi
)

Most of these are already available in C++17, so I would really appreciate if I don't need to bring dozen of additional stuff which C++ supports anyway.