On 04/12/2017 06:16 PM, degski via Boost wrote:
But now we leap to the other end, everybody should install and learn git, notoriously obscure and alien to windows users, in order to build and use boost! Or do you mean I should just download the snapshot zip-file on Github?
I don't know, if git is such "notoriously obscure and alien" then how about Boost.Build ? :) FWIW, the problem with Windows is not git but simply "unique" development environment.
... build and distribute the zipfiles ...
Yes. Boost is not only distributed by boost.org. All distributions, Linux and BSD and others, are also distributing Boost. It is of great help to the users of these distributions to make certain that all of them at least start with a consistent upstream version. - Adam