Stefan Seefeld wrote:
I imagine it's entirety possible to produce a "boost release" (or "distro" to use a term Niall suggested) consisting of all the latest releases of individual boost libraries.
You might argue that it's hard to guarantee compatibility among them. But that has been a problem Boost has been plagued with forever: no two boost releases have ever given any guaranty of compatibility. So here again, a little change in policy would very much benefit boost users.
I'm not sure I understand. One of the points of doing a Boost release is that the versions of the libraries included in it are compatible with each other. If library X is updated in a way that breaks libraries Y, Z and W, this breakage is (generally) either fixed before the release or X is rolled back. How would losing this very much benefit users is something that's not immediately obvious to me.