Re: [boost] Let's stop distributing binaries

Subject: Re: [boost] Let's stop distributing binaries
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-29 22:43:25

Nevin Liber wrote:

> We aren't responsible anyway.  Not shipping binaries means we will be 
> making things harder for some users, especially newcomers to Boost.  Now, 
> the outcome of this discussion may be that we will no longer ship binaries 
> because we cannot do it correctly for most use cases, but let's not 
> pretend not doing so is a benefit to the end user.

This is all irrelevant anyway because we don't ship binaries except on 
Windows where we don't have a problem with them.

Linux binaries are shipped by the distros, not us.