On Sun, Aug 3, 2025, at 10:54 AM, Artyom Beilis via Boost wrote:
Once again it is OK if you copy for example a private copy of boost for you and use it internally. It is almost never the case for open-source projects.
It is where I live. I only use e.g. FetchContent, download the tarball or using Nix flakes. Not an inch of pain. Just document which version of boost is supported. If you're concerned about users not able to deploy somewhere in a convenient way (e.g. without Nix or containers) you can always supply the option of static linking. External dependencies are the pain, I don't see any way in which Boost is special. I've had commercial projects relying on 50-100 external tools and libraries (it was in digital forensics) and Boost certainly wasn't the worst to deal with. Just my $0.02