Does anybody happen to know when an installer will be available for Boost 1.38?
IIRC, there is (and was never) no such thing as an installer. Most libs are header-only. About 9 libs or so have to be build (via jam). I did this successfully with VC++2005.
Did you have and problems building boost ? bjam is not the best choice, I agree.
AFAIK they will migrate towards scons as make system in the long run (though there is also some cmake activity...)
BTW. I finally started the architecture analysis of some of the boost libraries ;-)