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Boost was begun by members of the C++ standards committee Library Working Group to provide free peer-reviewed portable libraries to the C++ community. An additional objective is to establish "existing practice" and provide reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventual standardization. Indeed, the explicit intent is to propose many of these libraries for inclusion in the C++ Standard Library. The Boost Graph Library, formerly known as the Generic Graph Component Library (GGCL), is a collection of graph algorithms and data structures created in the generic programming style of the Standard Template Library (STL).

Author:
Lie-Quan Lee [contact developer]

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[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		Freeware, OSI Approved :: Artistic License
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

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Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.33.1	07-Feb-2007	Artistic License

 Comments

[»] Generic Programming and C++ Lib Standardization
by aanno - Jan 13th 2003 00:48:46

Boost.org is to C++ what Apache Jakarta is to Java: A collection of libraries all meant to help developing applications, distributed as Open Source. Most of the libraries are implemented in generic fashion: you should read the source code to grap an idea how gurus use C++ templates and the STL. Topics included are: text processing, extensions to the STL, meta programming, threads, python bindings, and higher order programming.

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[»] Re: Generic Programming and C++ Lib Standardization
by Ralf - Sep 23rd 2003 15:20:58

That might be very well the case. But currently (as in version 1.30.2) there is no clean way how to install the thing.
If you search a little in some newsgroups you will find a lot of pleas for help. So what I will do now is copy libraries to /usr/local/lib till my compiler is satisfied.
Welcome back to the stone-age...

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[»] Re: Generic Programming and C++ Lib Standardization
by Nightblade - Feb 5th 2004 10:25:16


> That might be very well the case. But
> currently (as in version 1.30.2) there
> is no clean way how to install the
> thing.
> If you search a little in some
> newsgroups you will find a lot of pleas
> for help. So what I will do now is copy
> libraries to /usr/local/lib till my
> compiler is satisfied.
> Welcome back to the stone-age...
On FreeBSD, it can be easily installed from /usr/ports/devel/boost. I would expect that most major Linux distributions would have it packaged as well.

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[»] Re: Generic Programming and C++ Lib Standardization
by Nick Welch - May 15th 2004 02:00:18


> On FreeBSD, it can be easily installed

> from /usr/ports/devel/boost. I would

> expect that most major Linux

> distributions would have it packaged as

> well.

Yep. I think it's even included in Fedora by default now. In debian it's a simple apt-get away, and I'm pretty sure gentoo has it in their portage system. Running a unix-ish OS without a decent package system is what I'd call living in the stone age. Unless you prefer to build everything by hand, but the grandparent poster didn't seem to be the type.

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