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Is it still required to download the entire 300MB+ Boost library to use a small section of it, like odeint for example? This has always been the "joke" that pre
by vortico 9y ago
Is it still required to download the entire 300MB+ Boost library to use a small section of it, like odeint for example? This has always been the "joke" that prevents me from taking it seriously.
- vinkelhake 9y agoThe latest release is a 70-80MB download (depending on archive type). Where are you getting 300MB from? The uncompressed size?
- vortico 9y agoIf so, I must have been out of date.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.
- int_19h 9y agoBoost 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.
- sclangdon 9y agoThe download isn't even remotely that big. If you are talking about the compiled size, you only need to build what you use (look up the --with-<library> and --without-<library> switchs). You can also use the included bcp utility [1] to extract a subset of boost. [1] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_64_0/tools/bcp/doc/html/index.html http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_64_0/tools/bcp/doc/html/inde...
- Scea91 9y ago300 MB is nothing today and I would guess that almost all of us can download it in less than a minute, so where is the problem?
- fao_ 9y agoAlmost everyone who happens to live in Silicon Valley, sure. Others are not so lucky and have 1mb/s download speed.
- ue_ 9y agoDo most people have download speeds greater than 5MB/s?
- mac01021 9y agoIsn't the download speed of a typical cable internet connection in the tens of Mbps? On the east coast I pay about $70 per month for about 50mbps. I would be interested to here if suburbs elsewhere in the country have it much worse (or much better).
- vortico 9y agoIt's not only the technical size that's the problem. It's the phycological complexity of the software that strays people away from it, and the filesize is an indicator for that. It tells me that the developers aren't opposed to add any feature they feel like, creating overengineered and bloated software.