On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:03:17PM -0700, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:12:17 -0600, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > The url in the book is wrong: > > > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_45.tar.bz2 should be > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_45_0.tar.bz2 > > > > I fixed that. The bigger problem IMO, is the description: > > > > "Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries." > > > > What does that mean? Source libraries to do what? That description is > > pretty much worthless. > > Well, I guess, but it seems to have been taken straight from > http://www.boost.org. > > The problem is that Boost is a collection of very diverse libraries. > Explaining > what each of them does would take up a couple of pages by itself, I would > think. > > Maybe that paragraph just needs a couple of examples instead? Perhaps: > > "Boost provides peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries that provide > a wide-range of functionality, e.g. random number generation and regular > expression processing)." > > Regards, > > Matt. > My impression is that BLFS has always preferred a project/package's own description.
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