Re: [boost] Re: Why Jam?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-25 09:12:16

----- Original Message -----
From: "Braden McDaniel" <braden_at_[hidden]>

> So you're suggesting it's reasonable for me to include a copy of Boost
> in my project's distribution? Try again. It bloats my project's
> distribution and, more importantly, it's a maintenance nightmare. As
> I've said, this creates a lot of work downstream when the problem could
> be fixed once at the source.

Are you planning to ask users to CVS a particular version of boost onto
their system? That's what would be required currently. We try to minimize
this of course, but binary and source compatibility break on a regular
basis.

-Dave