Douglas Gregor wrote:
On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:50 pm, Scott Meyers wrote:
There are real advantages to the CVS version of Boost in general and Filesystem in particular: lots of improvements and bug fixes, plus better "getting started" documentation and procedures.
I'd like to give the CVS version a try, but I'm not sure how to do it. ... Am I just overlooking something really obvious?
There's a tarball of Boost CVS here (built hourly, I think): http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost.tar.bz2
Although cvs is a bit daunting at first, you don't really need to learn much. And it's worth having on your computer if you want to try cutting edge code from open or free source projects. If you're on Windows and have cygwin installed, cvs is one of the optional packages that you can install. Otherwise, you can just download the command-line version from http://ftp.cvshome.org/release/binary/win32/ and follow the instructions on http://www.boost.org/more/download.html I'm not sure what the status of the official CVS repository is, but I've always had better luck using the boost-consulting.com mirror. Also, although I also like using the CVS version, because it has all the latest improvements that I desperately want, it does occasionally fall into a temporary state of disrepair, which can be a bit aggravating.