[GTALUG] BOOST, the big package with the bad install instructions

[Alvin Starr]

On 03/21/2017 04:28 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> On 2017-03-20 03:32 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
>> I didn't know anything about Boost until I had to deal with it as a set
>> of dependencies on something I wanted to compile.
> Some of the imaging libraries I use as part of my document filing system
> use Boost. Thankfully, all of them can be coerced to use library
> versions installed by:
>
>      sudo apt install libboost-all-dev
>
> I wouldn't want to venture further than that.
>
>   Stewart
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 From www.boost.org.
"
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.

We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. 
Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a 
broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both 
commercial and non-commercial use.

We aim to establish "existing practice" and provide reference 
implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for eventual 
standardization. Ten Boost libraries are included in the C++ Standards 
Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) and in the new C++11 
Standard. C++11 also includes several more Boost libraries in addition 
to those from TR1. More Boost libraries are proposed for standardization 
in C++17.
"

So its kind of like the glibc for things that are not in glibc.

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