Ken Moffat wrote: > 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. > > In this case, the scope of what *might* be included in future > versions of the package is open-ended.
I agree with the term prefer. In this case, the project's own description is terribly inadequate in describing what functions it provides. I think Matt's description is sufficient for the minimal introduction we use, but what is there now is not. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
