Is Boost the only way for VS2005 users experience TR2? Also is there a idiot proof way of downloading only the TR2 related packages? I was looking at the boost installer provided by BoostPro Consulting. If I select the options for all the threading options with all the packages for MSVC8 it requires 1.1GB. While I am not short of space,...
If found this quote at boost.org: More Boost libraries are in the pipeline for TR2 It links to the TR2 call from proposals. But I can't seem to find any other information on which boost libraries are headed for TR2. I've seen a draft proposal for Boost.Asio, and I vaguely remember seeing something about Boost.System and Boost.Fil...
I am not yet a Boost user. I am however planning to go into it as soon as possible. However I am little concerned about Boost, and the likely future name collisions or differences with the forthcoming C++0x. (Maybe it is not a real issue, but for example I find the boost lambdas syntax pretty ugly, BOOST_FOREACH aggressive to the eye, an...