On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 4:21 AM, Tom Kent
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Diego Rodriguez-Losada < diego.rlosada@gmail.com> wrote:
Just a question (from my ignorance), why the 1.5Gb msvc-all archive? The download stats clearly show a high preference for specific installers, maybe that one could be dropped without much impact.
There are lots of use cases where users will need multiple different versions of the libraries. Commonly, both the 32 and 64 bit version of a single visual studio type. However, if you are building a library for distribution, you will probably want to support multiple versions of visual studio with your library, so you'll need the boost libraries for all those.
The lack of a package that supported all the different versions is what originally drove me to start volunteering to do the windows builds...I'd really like to see it stick around :-)
Sure, that makes sense. I am not advocating at all to remove the msvc-all archive, just understanding the context, thanks :) Diego
Tom
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