Steve M. Robbins-2 wrote
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:22:00PM -0800, Robert Ramey wrote: I can't imagine this to be a very common use case. After about 2-3 build failures due to missing libraries, your user is going to desperately want "all of boost" in one tar ball.
what about when boost hits 500 libraries? Is he still going to want the whole thing? He'll always be able to get the "whole thing". That's not an issue. The whole discussion is predicated on the idea that one shouldn't have to download the whole thing. For other users - this discussion is not relevant.
It's not how I want to work. When want to use library X, I want X plus all its dependencies for any conceiveable program:
Hmmm and you want to distribute DLLS with your program which are many times larger than necessary? Will your customers be happy with that?
"apt-get install X-dev" and go. I don't want to have to keep running a dependency tool on my source code.
OK - no problem, you're already good to go. Robert Ramey -- View this message in context: http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/type-traits-Rewrite-and-dependency-free-v... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.