Just wanted to ping this PR to see if there were any thoughts on these changes, alternative approaches, etc. I'd be happy to follow up with those suggestions.

Otherwise, it'd be great to see a milestone tag pop up on this one ;)

hi mike! right now we can't merge anything to 3.10 or develop branches because there is a big code reformat under way.

Thanks, Nathan. No problem, just wanted to see if there had been any eyeballs on this, through comments or a milestone assignment, so I could address any suggestions for changes. Thanks for checking in!

@mtmccrea Thanks for the PR! I'm just looking at this now. I am OK with the nova-simd option but IMO people should include Boost as a dependency themselves if they need it, and they should also IMO use packaged boost rather than relying on the one in SC, which is first of all not a full copy of boost, second of all tailored for SC's purposes, and third of all updated on its own schedule.

Is there something specific you need it for? I can add a note in the README for the cookiecutter repo on how to include boost if that would satisfy you.

@brianlheim sorry to have let this sit for so long. I think it's reasonable to have people include boost only if they need it. I've removed that include. And sure I think it would be helpful to add a note in the docs about including external libraries. Thanks!

@mtmccrea no need to apologize. thanks for updating!