On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:12:17 -0600, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > The url in the book is wrong: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_45.tar.bz2 should be > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_45_0.tar.bz2 > > I fixed that. The bigger problem IMO, is the description: > > "Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries." > > What does that mean? Source libraries to do what? That description is > pretty much worthless.
Well, I guess, but it seems to have been taken straight from http://www.boost.org. The problem is that Boost is a collection of very diverse libraries. Explaining what each of them does would take up a couple of pages by itself, I would think. Maybe that paragraph just needs a couple of examples instead? Perhaps: "Boost provides peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries that provide a wide-range of functionality, e.g. random number generation and regular expression processing)." Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
