Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available
From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-06 12:38:53

[Rene Rivera]
> If you search back through email history you'd find that it used to be the
> default. But was changed as doing complete was: rarely what end users
> wanted, used up gobs of disk space, and made the build take a really long
> time (there might be other reasons but I don't remember ATM).

On my 3-year-old dev box with a spinny hard drive, extracting Boost 1.57.0 takes 4 minutes, and a complete x86 build plus cleanup takes 10 minutes, resulting in 2.03 GB of headers and DLLs/LIBs. Neither seems especially onerous, aside from the fact that the Getting Started documentation doesn't say to use a parallel build, which is *really* bad.

STL