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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-06 07:50:11


At 04:39 PM 3/5/2003, Rozental, Gennadiy wrote:

>> There are still a lot of people who use dial-up lines and
>> have no viable
>> alternative. We need to limit the Boost distribution to core
>> files and put
>> the other stuff elsewhere.
>>
>> --Beman
>
>I believe that sooner or later we will be forced to prepare per-library
>download. It's quite a work, but should be doable based on lib dependency
>graph.

I agree with you, but because of the amount of work involved would like to
put that project off for a while longer.

>We may prepare also a core module with most widely used components (for
>example the one that referred to more that N times). It should minimize
>number of different modules. So To install library L one need ot download
L
>specific module plus core one.

Yes, I had the same thought.

--Beman


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