On 10/28/2009 04:34 PM, Julian Bangert wrote:
I wonder whether there is still any thought or even effort spent on breaking boost up into individual components that can be built, tested, and ultimately also packaged separately. Any news on that ?
Well, a lot of Linux distributions already have this ( all the libboost- packages in debian for examples ) . In W32 it is possible even with BoostPro and in my distribution you can selectively extract libs.
See, this is precisely the problem: Each platform uses a different mechanism. This is not acceptable for boost users who may target different platforms, as there is no uniform way to describe the dependency on boost. Imagine how wonderful a world would be in which boost.org itself would define the package structure, which then would be adopted by all the different platforms / distributions. Add to that the lack of forward / backward compatibility between individual boost releases, and you have got a total maintenance nightmare. Am I the only one who finds this extremely hard to work with ? Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...