Re: [Boost-users] Storing boost as a 'vendor library' within svn and minimising it's size

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Storing boost as a 'vendor library' within svn and minimising it's size
From: Peter Bartlett (pete_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-15 05:16:02

Quoting Robert Jones <robertgbjones_at_[hidden]>:

> A released Boost version is (I believe) a completely fixed thing, so putting
> in a system whose
> purpose is track change seems bizarre to me.

It is pretty routine for us to have patch Boost for one reason or  
another. Once you've done that, source controlling it rapidly becomes  
a serious option, including binaries. With an appropriate directory  
structure, checkouts are not slowed down much because you aren't "svn  
up"-ing the 3rd-party directory day-in/day-out.