Re: [Boost-users] Storing boost as a 'vendor library' within svn and minimising it's size

Quoting Robert Jones :

A released Boost version is (I believe) a completely fixed thing, so putting in a system whose purpose is track change seems bizarre to me.

It is pretty routine for us to have patch Boost for one reason or another. Once you've done that, source controlling it rapidly becomes a serious option, including binaries. With an appropriate directory structure, checkouts are not slowed down much because you aren't "svn up"-ing the 3rd-party directory day-in/day-out.