Re: [Boost-users] installing boost at work

From: Nat Goodspeed (ngoodspeed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-02 10:03:14

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> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of liamv7
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> Subject: [Boost-users] installing boost at work
> 
> Hi, I want to use boost at work. What's the best way to make this
> available to our developers? The options I see:
> 1. Put the include files and built libs/dlls in version control. I
> don't see much point to this and binaries take up a lot a space and
> it's annoying when upgrading.
> 2. Zip up the include files and dlls and have developers unzip in
> appropriate location.
> 3. Let developers access boost over network. To slow.
> 
> How do you guys manage this?

[Nat] Probably not what you want to hear, but we checked the Boost
sources & includes into a subtree in our version-control system. For the
few Boost libraries we use that require building, we created
platform-specific project files and build them along with our own source
code. Naturally they don't require rebuilding as often as our stuff, but
it makes it more uniform for a new developer to get started.

This also allows us to use the VCS (Subversion in our case) to manage
the problem of merging local patches with new Boost releases.