I'm the maintainer of Boost.Process (if there is something like a maintainer for an unofficial Boost library). If you want to use Boost.Process, I strongly recommend using the version at <http://www.highscore.de/boost/process0.5/>. That's the latest version which is awaiting a review. It is used by others in real projects and has quite an extensive test suite. Furthermore, I try to help out quickly if anyone runs into any issues (which means there shouldn't be any issues most of the time :).