Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-25 22:21:38

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Diego Rodriguez-Losada <
diego.rlosada_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Just a question (from my ignorance), why the 1.5Gb msvc-all archive?
> The download stats clearly show a high preference for specific installers,
> maybe that one could be dropped without much impact.
>
>
There are lots of use cases where users will need multiple different
versions of the libraries. Commonly, both the 32 and 64 bit version of a
single visual studio type. However, if you are building a library for
distribution, you will probably want to support multiple versions of visual
studio with your library, so you'll need the boost libraries for all those.

The lack of a package that supported all the different versions is what
originally drove me to start volunteering to do the windows builds...I'd
really like to see it stick around :-)

Tom