Re: [Boost-users] Lean and mean boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Lean and mean boost
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-21 15:12:32

Robert Bielik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sitting here developing a build script to automate my build which
> first of all involves checking out sources, one of which is boost. 
> However, 99.9% of the checkout time is boost
> tests/documentation/examples and what have you.

If it were me, I'd think a little more about this.  When I include boost
in a (real) commercial project.  I include/link to a public directory
which contains the release of boost I want to depend on. I don't
check it out of some depostitory and re-build. I do this for a few
reasons.

a) It saves a lot of time.
b) It prevents me from getting surprised by changes that I'm not expecting.
c) It lets me change one thing at a time (corallory to b).  When I've
got nothing else to do or my app needs some new library/feature
I can replace the boost version and re-run any testing.  If there's
any problem I can just redirect to the original spot until my
complaints are addressed.

Boost files are "read-only" in this context so they are not great
candidates for "checking out the latest version"

Robert Ramey