On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 5:29 AM, Peter Dimov
Robert Ramey wrote:
Why would anyone want to use this? and for what?
It's a Linux thing.
On Linux, you do
apt-get install boost
and you get a pre-built Boost release (1.55.0, for example, for the current Debian/Ubuntu distributions) automatically downloaded and installed into the system header and library locations.
So if you then want to upgrade just Boost.Python, you could in theory download a standalone Boost.Python release and build it with the system-installed Boost.Build, against the system-installed dependencies such as Boost.SmartPtr.
On Windows (and, I suppose, OS X), there's no such system-supplied Boost, so the above doesn't apply and Windows people don't see a point, in a similar manner to how Linux people can't see the point of bpm.
On Windows there's NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/boost/. And on OSX there are various package manages (homebrew, macports, fink) and Xcode integration packaging equivalent to NuGet (cocoapods). -- -- Rene Rivera -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail