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39 | <h2 class="title">Welcome to the Boost C++ Libraries</h2> | |
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41 | <p>Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.</p> | |
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43 | <p>We emphasize libraries that work well with the C++ Standard Library. | |
44 | Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad | |
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51 | standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the <a href= | |
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55 | and will be included in the upcoming revision of the C++ Standard. More | |
56 | Boost libraries are proposed for the upcoming <a href= | |
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59 | <h3>Changes in this release</h3> | |
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63 | Boost 1.66 | |
64 | includes 3 new | |
65 | libraries | |
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67 | (<a href="libs/beast/index.html">Beast</a>, <a href="libs/callable_traits/index.html">CallableTraits</a>, <a href="libs/mp11/index.html">Mp11</a>) | |
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85 | <p>The release directory tree contains almost all of Boost; documentation, | |
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89 | <h3>Library Documentation</h3> | |
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91 | <p>The starting point for the documentation of individual libraries is the | |
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113 | in the <a href="http://www.boost.org/community/">Boost Community</a>.</p> | |
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115 | <div class="copyright-footer"> | |
116 | <p>Copyright © 2008 Beman Dawes, Rene Rivera</p> | |
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118 | <p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See | |
119 | accompanying file <a href="LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy | |
120 | at <a href= | |
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123 | <p>This software is <a href="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source | |
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