Re: [Boost-users] Already successfully running Boost on Linux, looking for advice from Windows Boost adopters

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Already successfully running Boost on Linux, looking for advice from Windows Boost adopters
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-14 18:21:43

AMDG

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> I have a quick feedback. AFAIAC and with all due respect, Boost on the 
> Windows side is not ready for prime time.
>
> As an example: I registered in the BoostPro site, downloaded the 
> installer and ran it. It looks spiffy: I got the choice to select 
> among the myriad Windows options (DLL, multi-thread, debug, etc.). I 
> selected "MSVC++ 2005" and yet got a hodgepodge of older and newer 
> Visual Studio solutions. The newer ones are not recognized my IDE.

Which solutions are you referring to? You shouldn't need any to use 
Boost on Windows.
You should just be able to use the pre-built libraries.

> Having said that, I am quite impressed by the BoostPro initiative, and 
> it is reassuring to see that the boost founders are part of it. I am 
> sure we will see great things from them.
>
> As I grow old^H^H^H, err- wiser, I tend not to be on the "bleeding 
> edge". I definitely won't be among the cowboys up front fending the 
> indians (pardon: native Americans, but armed with arrows).
>
> The Uni*x version builds and works great, though.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe