Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-07 04:21:27

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Beman
>> Dawes
>> > Sent: 06 April 2015 14:53
>> > To: Boost Developers List
>> > Subject: Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> >
>> > We need to start asking RC testers to use --build-type=complete
>> >
>> > --Beman
>>
>> Why isn't this the default?
>>
>
> 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).

Makes sense. Building libraries on demand would probably be the
ultimate solution..

Could the default also build the one -s variant?

-- 
Olaf