Re: [Boost-users] Getting started with Boost: what did you need to know?

6 Feb 2006

      Evan Carew  writes:
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David Abrahams wrote:
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Evan Carew  writes:
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David Abrahams wrote:
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Evan Carew  writes:
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David Abrahams wrote:
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Evan Carew  writes:
>There have been few libraries I have used recently where I didn't have
>to call this list for help. While I have always received a degree of
>help which has been useful to me, I routinely see other threads where
>a programmer with a question doesn't seem to connect with the
>respondents (the latest threads about bjam & python being good
>examples).
Hm, those are my responsibility, to some degree. Which threads
please?
try the following:
Re: [Boost-users] boost python (compiling an extension)
Ahem: http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2006/02/16887.php.
I don't know what thread about bjam you're referring to.
Am I missing something? You wanted a thread didn't you?
I'm sorry, wasn't this supposed to be an example of a thread where a
programmer with a question didn't connect with the respondents? Maybe
I don't understand what that means?
As it happens, it is an example of a programmer having trouble with
the build process, bjam, and his inability to find sufficient
documentation to get the job done.
Okay, not what you said.
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Contrary to what is usually said about boost's build process,
What is usually said about it?  Mostly I hear frustration.
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this query is about the ability to build python extensions using the
mandatory bjam process.
If you read the thread carefully, you'll see that the OP was asking
about how to build python extensions *without* using the mandatory
bjam process.
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If you read the thread,
Of course I have read the thread; there are four entries in it, two of
which are my replies to the OP!  Are we talking about different threads?
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you will experience one of the examples you were requesting.
I was requesting an example of, as you said,

  "threads where a programmer with a question doesn't seem to connect
   with the respondents"

but you just told me this thread was an example of something else.
Well, thanks for trying.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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