Since the 1.54 release, I've generally been uploading the windows binaries based on the RCs and enabling the downloads just a few minutes after the release notice goes out.

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I would now like to propose that we make these libraries an official part of each Boost release. I don't think this entails much, just the following:

1) Have the release team coordinate with me to ensure that the binaries are ready before announcing the release.
2) Include a link to them in the release announcement.

3) Link to them from the website.

It would also be good to get others who can run the scripts to perform the build, if I am someday unable to do this. The biggest hurdle here is having a (virtual) machine with all six versions of visual studio on it.

Is this something the community would be in favor of? I know that many of the people on these lists don't use windows and if they do are generally capable of building the windows binaries themselves, however there is a large group out there that prefers to just get the installer for them (like they do for other projects like Qt, wxWidgets, etc).

Thoughts?

Tom Kent