Back in March, Steve M. Robbins wrote to boost@lists.boost.org:
[is it] useful for a linux distribution (Debian) to keep multiple versions of Boost available simultaneously; e.g. 1.34.1 and 1.35. Currently Debian provides only the latest version of Boost.
Hi Steve, I've just had a look at packages.debian.org and as far as I can see there is a package called libboost1.35-dev, which unpacks headers into /usr/include/boost. So although you could have e.g. libboost1.36-dev on the Debian ftp server, it would be impossible to actually install both on the same machine since they would conflict over what to put in /usr/include/boost. Have I understood this correctly? Maybe there is some symlink magic or similar that I have missed. I was about to start converting some of my code to 1.35, but I'm less enthusiastic about that if I have to remove 1.34 and so convert everything in one go. Regards, Phil. p.s. I just clicked on sumost.ca and see that you've been hacking your digital picture frame. Me too. Got Debian running on it yet?