Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-05 12:23:04

Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:
> At 05:11 2005-05-26, Stefan Strasser wrote:
> 
>> I don't know anything about boost installation on windows, since I'm 
>> using a
>> prebuilt debian package, and that's my point:
>>
>> from the discussion it seems the building process is not as easy as it 
>> could
>> be. so, isn't it a better choice to provide binary packages for the most
>> popular compilers instead of writing an installer?
> 
> 
> a dir (ls -l for you *nix folks) of  *71*33* in my boost built libraries 
> shows
> 126 File(s)    652,626,996 bytes
> I suspect most people would balk at downloading something like that 
> (especially since much of boost can be used withOUT building anything)

Your expectations are wrong. MS libraries compress very well, so it 
would take about 30 mbs. Try to bzip or 7zip the files and look at the 
miracle.

Also, we need to have header-only package as we discussed earlier.

Andrey