If so, I must have been out of date. I just checked, and the archive is 635MB uncompressed. The joke continues.
It's amazing that people on StackOverflow suggest using this package for things as simple as sort functions.
It's amazing that people on StackOverflow suggest using this package for things as simple as sort functions.
If you're using any kind of sane package manager for your builds - NuGet on Win32, distro-specific package managers on Unix etc - that's exactly how it is presented. So you don't take a dependency on Boost - you take a dependency on boost-filesystem, or boost-regex, or boost-date_time etc.