Re: [boost] Attention Boosters

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-12 08:53:20

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> You can review the guide at
>> http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/more/getting_started.html.
>
> C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_0> bjam \
>   --build-dir=%TEMP%\build-boost          \
>   --toolset=msvc stage
>
> is pretty odd. Even if it worked, and it doesn't, 

What's wrong with it, please?

> why would we want to split the line in such a way in the guide?

* In part, it was instinct.  When writing C++TMP we had a 65-column
  limit for code samples

* In order to avoid making it too wide to read without scrolling in
  all reasonably-sized browser windows.  I really hate that.

* The original version of the guide had one more sidebar, which would
  have collided with that text.

I'm open to changes, though.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com