Boost VS boostdep

Compare Boost vs boostdep and see what are their differences.

Boost

Super-project for modularized Boost (by boostorg)

boostdep

A tool to create Boost module dependency reports (by boostorg)
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Boost

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-08.
  • The Future of Boost by Vinnie Falco
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 8 May 2023
    git clone https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git -b ${{ inputs.branch }} "${{ inputs.boost-dir }}" --depth 1 git submodule update --depth 1 -q --init tools/boostdep python tools/boostdep/depinst/depinst.py --include library_i_want"
  • Boost – a new open-source desktop app for managing Spring Boot microservices
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2023
    Any thoughts on why it has exactly the same name as a popular source available project that's been around since the 1990s?

    earliest archive: https://web.archive.org/web/19991011120524/http://www.boost....

    latest commit (today): https://github.com/boostorg/boost/commit/7727baea944c6365301...

    naming in 2023: "The Boost project provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"

    naming in 1999: "The Boost web site provides a repository for free C++ libraries"

  • Introducing Boost - a new open source desktop app for managing Spring Boot microservices
    2 projects | /r/opensource | 18 Apr 2023
    Hmm...
  • Boost with RPMs
    1 project | /r/cpp | 30 Jan 2023
    include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(boost URL https://github.com/boostorg/boost/releases/download/boost-1.81.0/boost-1.81.0.tar.xz ) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(boost) ...
  • Boost:Boost
    2 projects | /r/u_Pure-Ability-2363 | 19 Oct 2022
  • Boost v1.79.0 released
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Apr 2022
    set(BOOST_INCLUDE_LIBRARIES system thread) # enabled libraries set(BOOST_ENABLE_CMAKE ON) # CMake support FetchContent_Declare(boost GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git ...
  • Easy to use, fast, git sourced based, statically linked C/C++ package manager.
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 22 Oct 2021
    In fact, boost has cmake files now — pretty recent addition and I haven’t got around to testing, but no reason to think it doesn’t work. https://github.com/boostorg/boost. Also, boost is getting more modular with every release — more and more libraries can be pulled independently with mostly only depending on boost.core. Asio has been like this forever, but Boost.math is a recent example to the bandwagon. You can find an independent release package for math on GitHub now.
  • Is there a uniform boost release download url?
    1 project | /r/cpp | 9 Aug 2021
    Do you build boost from sources? If so, maybe get the tar balls from their Github repository?

boostdep

Posts with mentions or reviews of boostdep. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-10.
  • Boost.URL ACCEPTED, get the beta now!
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 10 Nov 2022
    b) If you're concerned about having to download all boost libraries in an environment where this is costly you can download only the subset of headers Boost.URL needs with boostdep. That's how boost libraries are tested in CI, by the way.
  • New Boost.Unordered containers have BIG improvements!
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Jun 2022
    If you just want to download the modules you need straight away, then you also use this script
  • Boost v1.79.0 released
    5 projects | /r/cpp | 13 Apr 2022
    If what you want is avoid downloading all the files, then there’s that: https://github.com/boostorg/boostdep/blob/develop/depinst/depinst.py

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boost and boostdep you can also consider the following projects:

abseil-cpp - Abseil Common Libraries (C++)

kelcoro - C++20 coroutine library

Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.

unordered - Boost.org unordered module

Qt - Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)

FetchBoostContent - CMake FetchContent for Boost libraries

Dlib - A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++

boost - cmake based plugable static compiled boost library

JUCE - JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.

EASTL - Obsolete repo, please go to: https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

Seastar - High performance server-side application framework

Loki - Loki is a C++ library of designs, containing flexible implementations of common design patterns and idioms.