Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
"David Abrahams" <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote
If I want some other arbitrary thing, like some special version of GCC, I install from source just as I would on any *nix system. I've done it many times.
Yes, many projects supply precompiled binaries, but if I want something to work reliably in my environment I often find myself building it. In fact, that's the standard way to get a Python installation on *nix.
I very much doubt that this is typical, especially in the windows world. I, for instance, always prefer binaries, if available, since I usually don't want to become an expert in a tool, and the standard configuration is good enough for me.
Why not have both?
Isn't that beside the point ? Whether and how to provide binary packages for boost or any of its components is a packaging issue, and unrelated to whether boost-the-project should host wave-the-library and wave-the-tool. Sometimes people seem to forget that the availability of software in source form is a feature, not an inconvenience. Regards, Stefan