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From: Andrey Melnikov (melnikov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-15 14:27:52


Alexey Pakhunov wrote:
> Reece Dunn wrote:
>
>>>It is a collection of related headers, libraries, binaries. Minimal SDK
>>>may contain only headers, for example - WTL. This can be an issue.
>>
>>How can this be an issue? In general, on Windows, an "SDK" has the
>>following layout:
>
>
> Well, I meant a bit different thing. I worried about header-only SDKs
> but it turned out that we already have such SDKs (like some boost
> libraries). So it was false alarm.
>
The problem still exists. For example, you cannot easily switch between
different installed versions of Boost. You cannot configure Boost in
user-config etc. So Boost isn't an SDK yet.

Andrey

 


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