[boost] Distributing subsets of Boost libraries

From: Richard Hadsell (hadsell_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-19 09:58:10

It is obvious that the Boost library collection is quite large and 
growing, and it probably will never decrease.  It takes a long time to 
build the libraries that require building and to copy the headers from 
one place to another.  It would be really nice for me (and for others, I 
suspect) to be able to request just the subset of libraries that I use.  
I would like the developers to think of a mechanism to break up the 
collection into subsets.

Of course, there could be one subset that is common to all, and there 
could be other subsets that are common to a group of libraries.  It 
would make sense to keep the number of subsets small by placing 
libraries with similar functionality or dependencies into a single 
subset.  If you want to get fancy, you could include a library in 
multiple subsets.

Whatever makes sense should be fine with most users.  I just ask you to 
consider the desirability of restructuring the distributions.

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