On 7/04/2015 4:39 AM, "Stephan T. Lavavej"
[Rene Rivera]
If you search back through email history you'd find that it used to be
the
default. But was changed as doing complete was: rarely what end users wanted, used up gobs of disk space, and made the build take a really long time (there might be other reasons but I don't remember ATM).
On my 3-year-old dev box with a spinny hard drive, extracting Boost 1.57.0 takes 4 minutes, and a complete x86 build plus cleanup takes 10 minutes, resulting in 2.03 GB of headers and DLLs/LIBs. Neither seems especially onerous, aside from the fact that the Getting Started documentation doesn't say to use a parallel build, which is *really* bad.
That's different to running regression tests. Regression tests that I've run take somewhere around 4 hours ;-) And that's with a parallel build.