Re: [boost] Let's stop distributing binaries

Subject: Re: [boost] Let's stop distributing binaries
From: Richard (legalize_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-08-29 23:32:39

In article <a3d37ee2-3a8e-6ec7-5336-257c63a4a298_at_[hidden]>,
    Gavin Lambert via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 30/08/2018 10:43, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> +1

...except where they don't.

Linux distros can significantly lag the boost releases, particularly
for "enterprise" distributions.
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