Re: [boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Martin Slater (mslater_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-30 07:18:53

Andrey Melnikov wrote:
> David Abrahams wrote:
> 
>> Andrey Melnikov <melnikov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> Now boost is a bad example for other libraries. If all libraries will 
>>> follow boost's example, we would get c:\boost, c:\zlib, c:\cppunit, 
>>> c:\mpich2 etc. This is definitely a bad idea.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sheesh, I don't see what the big deal is.  It's not like you can't put
>> it wherever you like, whenever you like: as part of installation, or 
>> later.
>>
> We should consider that users are used to think that installation isn't 
> just a copy, and they are afraid to relocate 'installed' files.

Whats the problem? The installer just has a default location and as 
standard in installers you get to see this and the option to change it 
*before* installation. It just doesn't really seem to matter what the 
default location is. (FWIW I dont think Program Files is the right place 
as default but there ya go).

Martin.

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