Re: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-26 14:26:13

At 11:10 2005-05-26, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 May 2005 13:27:13 -0400
>David Abrahams <dave_at_boost-co
>
> > If we skip Boost.Python we *do* need to tell people what they need to
> > set up in order to not get it to be skipped.  Maybe you don't care,
> > but I do.  I was the one fielding all the "Can't build Boost.Python"
> > questions before I had that big message.
>
>
>Right, but I'd like to give the build an option that says "I don't care
>if python can't be built, so don't yell at me when you can't build it."
>Of course, I'd like the real option to be a tad shorter ;-)

I submit that if you know enough to use the option, you know enough to 
ignore the warning.  It's not like you're installing/building boost many 
times a day (you'd have to be _crazy_ to do that, lol).

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