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Subject: Re: [boost] Missing Documentation on Building and InstallingDocumentation.
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-23 05:03:22
>5) Ideally it should be eventually be possible to automatically create
>a PDF book of "The Boost Libraries V#.##" which one could download
>and/or print out. Heck, at that point Boost could even sell dead-tree
>copies of it to help cover whatever operating costs the Boost
>organization might have (assuming this is compatible with Boost's
>goals).
There are PDF's downloadable from here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-docs/ but note that these
downloads don't cover all of Boost (just those libraries that use
Quickbook/Boostbook/Docbook for their documentation).
A complete "all of Boost" PDF would be a monumentally large document and a
non starter IMO, as for a print version, well it would probably require a
whole tree per copy ;-)
HTH, John.