Re: [boost] Docs in release tarballs

Ruben Perez wrote:

Hi all,

For someone that hasn't been that long involved in Boost, it feels strange to distribute the documentation in the same release tarball as the code, specially considering the usual complains about "Boost size".

I'm sure there are reasons behind it, and I'd like to learn about them. This is a candid question, out of being a newbie here.

In the beginning, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, documentation consisted of each library having a heap of .html files in its directory, following no convention in either naming or placement. So there was no way to have a separate tarball with the docs, but there wasn't any need either, because Boost was much smaller.