On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:38 PM, 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.
Could b2 default to -jX where X is the number of cores? -- Olaf