Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.56.0 has been released

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.56.0 has been released
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-09 10:50:47

On 8 August 2014 18:37, Richard Hadsell <hadsell_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> (1) I downloaded and untarred from the Unix .bz2 download.  Many of the
> directories have 700 (user-only access) permissions, instead of the usual
> 755.  I can correct everything by hand, but this seems like a mistake.  It
> would be good to offer us a useful chmod command to fix this.

find boost_1_56_0 -type d | xargs chmod 755

> (2) I started to look at the getting_started docs, because I expected some
> advice with respect to the new library structure.  However, the docs all
> refer to 1.55.0, so I doubt that I will learn anything from them.  I can
> muddle on without help, but I was hoping to avoid unnecessary delays in
> installing 1.56.0.

The instructions are the same for both versions, it's just that no one
remembered to rebuild the document for 1.56. I can fix that on the
website.