[Boost-users] Feedback boost conan binary packages

Subject: [Boost-users] Feedback boost conan binary packages
From: Luis (lasote_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-12-29 07:04:58

Dear Boost Users,

Disclaimer: I am founder and developer of conan.io C++ package manager.
Please note that it is just a FOSS project, MIT license, fully
decentralized, and although I'd like to promote the tool and receive
feedback about it, there are already channels for that conversation in the
github repos.

What I'd really like is to get feedback about the Boost packages I am
creating and maintaining in conan. I have generated almost 190 different
binary packages for Boost versions 1.57-1.60 (
https://www.conan.io/search?q=Boost%20AND%20user:lasote) for Linux, Win,
Mac and different flavours of compilers (gcc 4.7-5.3, VS12-14) and settings
(Debug, Release).

You can read a quick getting started on such Boost packages in:
http://docs.conan.io/en/latest/examples/boost.html

If someone has been able to try it, I'd like to know several things:

- whether it is interesting to have pre-compiled packages or you always
prefer to build from source (i.e. always using the --build option in
conan). So far there are about 200 downloads of binary packages, but
probably many people prefer to build from source.

- It has dependencies to already existing zlib and bzip2 conan packages
(can be shared or static). Are you fine with these? Any other Boost
dependencies missing that you would like to automate?

- It is probably the largest package so far, have you experienced slow
downloads?

You can report issues and feedback in the conan-boost repo:
https://github.com/lasote/conan-boost/issues.

Thanks very much,
Luis