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Subject: Re: [boost] List of C++ 11 only Boost libraries and their status?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-01 06:38:58


On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Klaim - Joël Lamotte <mjklaim_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I believe people would care less if a library is standard or not
> if there was an easy way to get the library and integrate it in a project.
> Most Python and Ruby users have no reluctance into trying a library
> because it's so easy to plug one in by copy/paste or by using
> pip or gem.

I think you're right and this is especially problematic on Windows (IMO).
Building is a nightmare, it'd be awesome if there was a good solution for this.

On Linux one can often just do apt-get / yum install <lib>

-- 
Olaf

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