Emil Dotchevski wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Emil Dotchevski wrote: This seems to me a rather academic question, in contrast to the original request. Boost is still shipped as a single package on most (if not all) platforms, and providing some help to packagers to be able to split it up would be extremely useful.
How would it be extremely useful?
Permit me to answer that. a) First of all - it is ALOT less time to build and test only the libraries that one actually uses rather than the whole set. b) In practice, its common to find a couple of anomolies in one or the other libraries and this takes a disproportionate amount of tiem to track down and get things built. If one is building/testing less only what he is going to actually use, this situation is less likely to waste a lot of time. And, each build/test attempt takes less time as well. d) When some such anomolie occurs, one has to spend the time to determine whether or not it's a problem for the current application and this takes time as well. c) As boost grows - this problem gets bigger - even for someone using only a couple of libraries. That is, the current system doesn't scale. Robert Ramey
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