Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge

Subject: Re: [boost] Moving away from SourceForge
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-01-26 03:43:15

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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 :-)

Why is building from source not an option?

-- 
Olaf