31 Mar
2017
31 Mar
'17
5:04 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:44:30PM +0300, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
I consider vswhere a part of the toolchain. We do not distribute toolchains in our releases, and we should not make an exception for MSVC. If MS cannot supply this tool in VS installers or as an OS update, and we still want to use it, make it a precondition for the users to install first and add a link to the Getting Started page. But please, don't put BLOBs into the source distributions.
Seconded! Agree completely. Note that downstream distributions, like Debian linux, will often "re-package" the source distribution to remove such files, so it adds a little bit of effort to the distributors. -Steve