Re: [boost] Customer Friendlier Boost Installation -- (Finally)Getting Started

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-05 13:51:43

Andrey Melnikov <melnikov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Paul A Bristow" <pbristow_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>Well I suspect I am not the only one confused already ;-)
>>>
>>>(I did claim to be well qualified!)
>>>
>>>A definition of 'Boost root' seems useful, for a start, even if it seems
>>>obvious to you.
>> 
>> 
>> It doesn't seem obvious to me, and if you read through my replies in
>> this thread you will see that I suggested specific text that indicates
>> which directory it is.
>> 
>> 
>>>The table of bjam options appears to me to provide c:\boost as the Win32
>>>default for where bjam puts the Boost version files.
>>>
>>>How do you suggest switching to a new Boost version 1.34?
>>>And back again if it proves to cause trouble :-(
>> 
>> 
>> I don't understand the question.
>> 
> The question was: How do you suggest to have multiple boost versions 
> installed side by side?

No, it wasn't.  I can read the exact question above.  But I still
don't understand it.

> Who is going to contribute? I'd like to, but I don't like where
> should I put this guide. 

I think you should work with Schobi, who is rewriting the Getting
Started guide.

> Maybe we should put it into bbv2 docs, because updating bbv1 docs is
> a waste of time due to migration to bbv1. Do you think that indeed
> we have to update bbv1 docs too?

We need to update the getting started guide.  Changing it to refer to
BBv2 when we make the switch will be trivial.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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