Re: [Boost-cmake] More progress on the Windows installer

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-22 12:58:08

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Doug Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > 3) My intuition is that four libraries (shared+static) * (debug+release)
> is
> > enough choices, and more than that just gets confusing. What do others
> > think?
>
> I think I agree. In general, I would really like us to limit the
> number of binaries we build and ship for each platform, to get down to
> the binaries that really matter for users. Do people really use the
> single-threaded libraries on Windows? Probably not.

Microsoft is not even supplying single-threaded libraries with VC++ 2008
Express Edition. I don't know about the other editions.

--Beman