Re: [boost] New boost packaging suggestion for windows

Subject: Re: [boost] New boost packaging suggestion for windows
From: Christopher Jefferson (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-04 04:21:52

On 3 Nov 2009, at 22:31, Julian Bangert wrote:

> Hello,
> I just noticed an error crept into my earlier posted link:
> The correct link for google is: http://boost-win-bin.googlecode.com/files/boost_1_40_0-vc9-preview.7z
> I would appreciate any comments on this distribution, so that  I  
> could pack it up with an installer and really "release" it.
> Again, this distribution pretty much contains all of boost - all  
> configurations for a single version of Visual C++, without Python or  
> MPI, but is very tightly pakced into around 30 MB  ( a 30th of the  
> current  boostpro distribution size )

Please put all your stuff into a folder -- I extracted it into my  
downloads directory, then had to pick it apart from the other stuff  
there. Obviously a proper installer would fix this.

You don't seem to package zlib and bzip2 libraries for  
boost::iostreams compression. I've previously had great difficulties  
getting these to build on windows, so if you provided them, that would  
be nice.

>
> Yrs, Julian Bangert
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