On Jun 11, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Ole Christian Weidner wrote:
This is interesting!
Are you planning to provide a MacOS X style binary installer (a.k.a. package installer)? I'm about to start working on such an installer for Boost 1.34 but that would save me some work. If so, are you planing to provide Universal Libraries (containing Intel and PowerPC libs)? Until now I couldn't convince bjam to automatically produce fat libs on MacOS.
Ticket #989 concerns support for universal binaries in Boost.Build: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/989 At present, there is no such support. I don't know Boost Consulting's plans in this regard, but I doubt that we will see a Mac OS X binary installer along these lines any time soon. Some of us are working on a CMake-based build system for Boost, which includes creating binary installers for Windows and Mac OS X (with universal binaries). I have no idea if the CMake build system will make it into Boost, but if it does... we'll certainly be creating binary installers for Mac OS X. - Doug