On 4/16/05, Andy Little <andy@servocomm.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
"Rogier van Dalen" <rogiervd@gmail.com> wrote
I find installing Boost is pretty easy; but as long as one hasn't tried it yet, Boost may look scarily big.
There has been talk before
on something like "Boost Light". Combining concerns #1 and #2, wouldn't it be a good idea to supply a small subset of boost consisting of header-only libraries only?
I would have thought a system such as r.p.m / windows installer could be used. Is the requirement not just a remote version of the functionality of bcp ?. Tie this in to the http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm with a suitable installer and it would certainly attract casual users.
What I meant is a "starter's package" with a few (often-used) libraries in it. As I said, I believe the problem may be not the number of megabytes, but the number of libraries (slightly more than 7 +- 2 :-). A remote version of bcp will only force potential users to educate themselves about all Boost libraries, and chase them away rather than attract them, I fear. Regards, Rogier