Re: [boost] boost organization and installation

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-04 02:17:09

<sigh>
At Thursday 2002/05/02 08:56, you wrote:

>That's correct, but it does prevent the entire package
>from building correctly.  I think you and I disagree
>on this part.  A CM will never say that a partial
>build of a product is good to use in production.
>Would you agree?
>
>Noel

No...and before you write me off as someone who hasn't studied the problem, 
I've been in the biz since 1965 and a CM with that attitude is part  of the 
problem, not part of the solution.

The boost libraries (note the _plural_) happened to be packaged together 
for the convenience of the user community.  I personally don't want to 
download 20+ separate things.

To push your analogy (partial build is useless) well beyond the breaking 
point, if you were to have a severe accident and lost a leg, should the 
rest of society "put you out of your misery" since one part clearly isn't 
working?
Of course not, you don't _need_ ALL of your parts to be useful.
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