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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by vinkelhake on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:28AM (#14634527)
The latest release is a 70-80MB download (depending on archive type). Where are you getting 300MB from? The uncompressed size?
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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by vortico on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:12AM (#14634687)
If so, I must have been out of date. I just checked, and the archive is 635MB uncompressed. The joke continues.

It's amazing that people on StackOverflow suggest using this package for things as simple as sort functions.

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Re:Does the Boost library meet its original goal? by int_19h on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:51AM (#14635441)
Boost is not a package. It is a collection of packages.

If you're using any kind of sane package manager for your builds - NuGet on Win32, distro-specific package managers on Unix etc - that's exactly how it is presented. So you don't take a dependency on Boost - you take a dependency on boost-filesystem, or boost-regex, or boost-date_time etc.

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