Re: [Boost-users] how to download a single library

Is the way to extract one specific library ( smart_ptr in my case) from complete BOOST source tree? I need to use only smart_pointers, but undirtunately keeping a full BOOSt treen is too heavy for my CVS server. Are boost libraries heavy interrelated each with another?

Yes, but you can use the bcp tool to extract the subset you want, see http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html If you search the mailing list archives there is a discussion somewhere about why the subset used by shared_ptr is as large as it seems to be (it can be surprising until you realise what's going on). John.