Re: [Boost-users] how to download a single library

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-28 05:54:32

> Is the way to extract one specific library ( smart_ptr in my case)
> from complete BOOST source tree? I need to use only smart_pointers,
> but undirtunately keeping a full BOOSt treen is too heavy for my CVS
> server. Are boost libraries heavy interrelated each with another?

Yes, but you can use the bcp tool to extract the subset you want, see 
http://www.boost.org/tools/bcp/bcp.html

If you search the mailing list archives there is a discussion somewhere 
about why the subset used by shared_ptr is as large as it seems to be (it 
can be surprising until you realise what's going on).

John.