- Why Boost? - What Does Boost Provide? - What Else? - Version
History Boost is a free library which is aimed at providing
quality software components to developers, whilst using the
styles of the Standard Template Library. Some of the components
within the library may be put forward as future extensions to
the Standard Library.The Boost main pageThe Boost libraries
indexCUJ Descriptions of the boost components The Boost homepage
contains extensive documentation on all of the individual
components. This article is intended to be an overview of why
you should consider using Boost, and the Boost components in
preference to other libraries, and to provide a location on
CodeProject which can offer links to related documentation.
Boost installation is simple because most of the components
within the library reside in their own header files, which
should not require modification. The BoostJam build tool is
available for the components which do require compilation. You
can download the source zip from SourceForge. U