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Re: PING: Proposal for Boost 1.33.0 package
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 17 17:38, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
> >
> > I wonder what is wrong that I still got no response...
>
> Well, along the lines of recent discussions, your sdesc and ldesc fields
> in the various setup.hint files are somewhat useless. Could you please
> change them so that they say something about what boost actually is?
> You could use the texts from some spec file of a Linux distro, for instance.
I will change that and resubmit.
>
> So, well, what *is* boost? Is it packed with some Linux distro by default?
> Which one?
Basically it is a bunch of very useful C++ libraries. For the overview of what
it includes look at http://www.boost.org/libs/libraries.htm.
VH