Re: [boost] New boost packaging suggestion for windows

Subject: Re: [boost] New boost packaging suggestion for windows
From: Julian Bangert (jbangert_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-28 16:34:41

Hello,

 > Sadly, the only point being discussed so far is the online registration.
 > What I find to be at least as annoying is the size of the package. And
 > by that I'm not (only) referring to the memory or bandwidth. The most
 > important issue is the burden of having to deal with such an amount of
 > data, even if I'm only interested into a relatively small part of boost.
 >
My package contains everything in one archive. These 37MB offer quite 
good compression  and you can choose what you wish to extract.
 > I wonder whether there is still any thought or even effort spent on
 > breaking boost up into individual components that can be built, tested,
 > and ultimately also packaged separately. Any news on that ?
 >
 > Thanks,
 >          Stefan
 >
Well, a lot of Linux distributions already have this ( all the libboost- 
packages in debian for examples ) . In W32 it is possible even with 
BoostPro and in my distribution you can selectively extract libs.

Tell me if this is wanted/appreciated and I can write a GUI frontend to 
automatically install components.
I just uploaded the files to 2 sites for distribution, at least one of 
which should be up at any given time:
1) ( the mirror, but the preferred location ) 
http://boost-win-bin.googlecode.com/files/boost_1_40_0-vc9-preview.7z*
2) ( main site, but not on  a good machine) 
https://obliviononline.com/pub/boost/
*After a few people confirm that this works for them they should be 
considered stable and I would build for other C versions as well. Then 
they could also be mentioned in getting started.
*
*Thanks, Julian Bangert

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