Dear Boost Users,
Disclaimer: I am founder and developer of
conan.io C++ package manager. Please note that it is just a FOSS project, MIT license, fully decentralized, and although I'd like to promote the tool and receive feedback about it, there are already channels for that conversation in the github repos.
What I'd really like is to get feedback about the Boost packages I am creating and maintaining in conan. I have generated almost 190 different binary packages for Boost versions 1.57-1.60 (
https://www.conan.io/search?q=Boost%20AND%20user:lasote) for Linux, Win, Mac and different flavours of compilers (gcc 4.7-5.3, VS12-14) and settings (Debug, Release).
If someone has been able to try it, I'd like to know several things:
- whether it is interesting to have pre-compiled packages or you always prefer to build from source (i.e. always using the --build option in conan). So far there are about 200 downloads of binary packages, but probably many people prefer to build from source.
- It has dependencies to already existing zlib and bzip2 conan packages (can be shared or static). Are you fine with these? Any other Boost dependencies missing that you would like to automate?
- It is probably the largest package so far, have you experienced slow downloads?
Thanks very much,
Luis