On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote: > Windows is even worse, but developers for that platform are > masochistic by nature. They install multiple versions in separate > directories, obviously not in standard locations because there are > none, and hard code the paths in their sources, then ship the DLLs > with their programs. Horrible. I think this way of working shows > itself in how Boost does things, like -st/-mt suffixes where on Linux > we would just build a single multithreaded library and be done with it > (or support both in a single library like libc).
Hmm, I've had less issues with Boost on Windows than on Linux. I agree that in general Windows is a mess, but IMO Boost isn't part of that mess. Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinvqwcwgapp=5sjraqvdfnbgmhtwxesd1ul7...@mail.gmail.com
