Re: [boost] About installation

From: Ross Smith (r-smith_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-25 10:54:21

Darin Adler wrote:
> 
> I think this may be a "Unix development mindset" vs. "Windows development
> mindset" vs. "Macintosh development mindset" thing.

No, it's a closed source mindset ("programmers need to be able to
install boost") vs open source mindset ("_everynody_ needs to be able to
install boost") thing.

> Unix programmers expect something like "configure; make; make install", then
> get the includes and libraries out of soms special directory. Macintosh
> programmers expect to point the IDE at the headers and the source files. I'm
> not sure exactly what Windows programmers expect.

We've explained over and over and over agin that what _programmers_
expect isn't the issue. The issue is what non-programmer _end users_
expect.

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