Re: [boost] Re: 1.30.0->1.30.2: no more thread support for Linux?

From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-28 06:45:28

> Any thoughts on more explicitly documenting the #defines used to toggle
optional
> features in header-only boost modules?

What where you thinking of other than that already in
www.boost.org/libs/config/config.htm

> Boost Config seems to hide those details fairly effectively for developers
> who don't distribute their code (or distribute Boost along with their
code).
>
> The problem I see is that developers who distribute code that depends on
> boost can't count on the user's version of Boost being configured in any
> particular way (or at all - the docs suggest just untarring it as a valid
> way to use the header-only modules).

There shouldn't really be any difference between the config after just
extracting the tarball, and after running configure.

John.