Re: [boost] Boost is supposed to serve *the entire C++ community; it isn't Boost's goal to serve Boost's community*

On 20 May 2016 at 07:35, Vladimir Prus wrote:

I think the reference to modularization in Debian is slightly misleading. Each component with separately compiled libraries become a separate package. The header-only libraries are all inside a single package, libboost-dev or something like that. It's not like you can separately install boost.any

It really doesn't matter if you can separately install boost.any or not. Most of the pain comes from binaries - especially for people who don't really care or want to know about boost. Downloading some headers and adding to the include path is easy enough for a developer, and unnecessary for a user, who only needs the binaries.