Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Build/install (attn: release team)

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-23 14:16:42

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:56:46 -0500, Rene Rivera wrote
> The topic of what gets built "out of the box" came up again, this 
> time on IRC. Some background... In the past we have gone the route 
> of building as much as possible when users do the manual Boost 
> build+install. That approach has gotten us a rather distressing 
> reputation of building being a real pain, mostly because it takes a 
> long time to build. But also because it generates a dizzying array 
> of library files and hence people have a hard time understanding 
> what to link to.
> 
> The old real way to "solve" this is to reduce the number of variants 
> we build by default. So the current favorite is to only build:
> 
>    * multi-threaded, shared runtime, release
> 
> This seems to be the most used and most immediately useful variant 
> in the majority of platforms. It also happens to be, other than 
> release vs. debug, the only possible variant in some platforms.
> 
> So if no one has objections to this choice I, with help from Volodya,
>  will change this by the end of the week.

I'm in support of this change.

Jeff