RFP: boost libraries

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:david.abrahams@rcn.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:11 AM

> * Most of these libraries are just C++ templates in header files

Ah. I wasn't aware of that. Just dumb luck I guess - picking the regex
library, which does have a .a component, and a .so - but no .dll.
 

> * There is already a DLL version of the Boost.Regex and 
> Python libs (the static lib version of Boost.Python is 
> available but deprecated).

Where does one find the Regex dllized lib?
 
> * Nobody has decided what an appropriate unix-style 
> installation for boost would look like (where the headers 
> live, how the libs should be named and versioned, what 
> symlinks to make, etc.). We need guidance on this. Normally 
> we tell people to download the boost tree, put the root in 
> their #include path, build the libraries, manually collect 
> them and put them wherever they want. There has been 
> increasing dissatisfaction with this approach.

Right. Uhmm, I think that debian makes the boost libraries available,
chances are that the packager there has found a good solution, or the
package would have failed there package linter.
 
I can (and will, but in no great hurry) look into that aspect a little
if you like.

Rob