Hello,

Sadly, the only point being discussed so far is the online registration. What I find to be at least as annoying is the size of the package. And by that I'm not (only) referring to the memory or bandwidth. The most important issue is the burden of having to deal with such an amount of data, even if I'm only interested into a relatively small part of boost.

My package contains everything in one archive. These 37MB offer quite good compression and you can choose what you wish to extract.

I wonder whether there is still any thought or even effort spent on breaking boost up into individual components that can be built, tested, and ultimately also packaged separately. Any news on that ?

Thanks, Stefan

Well, a lot of Linux distributions already have this ( all the libboost- packages in debian for examples ) . In W32 it is possible even with BoostPro and in my distribution you can selectively extract libs. Tell me if this is wanted/appreciated and I can write a GUI frontend to automatically install components. I just uploaded the files to 2 sites for distribution, at least one of which should be up at any given time: 1) ( the mirror, but the preferred location ) http://boost-win-bin.googlecode.com/files/boost_1_40_0-vc9-preview.7z* 2) ( main site, but not on a good machine) https://obliviononline.com/pub/boost/ *After a few people confirm that this works for them they should be considered stable and I would build for other C versions as well. Then they could also be mentioned in getting started. * *Thanks, Julian Bangert __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4553 (20091028) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com