title: Using boost - put it in the source control or let any developer to install by himself?
body: <p>Currently we use Boost in our SVN under a 3rd party directory. 
  The problem is that updating the whole tree takes quite a lot, and I blame Boost's gazillion files (among other culprits).</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, I can let any developer install it by himself, but then I must force them to install to the same location (which is quite ugly...).</p>
  
  <p>What is preferred? How can the install location issue can be handled?<br>
  Are there any other alternatives?</p>
  
  <p>I'm using VS2008 (soon VS2010) under Windows (as opposed to VS2008 under... :) ) . </p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>: 
  We've migrated to VS2010 and are using property sheets. See my answer below.<br>
  Ralf has a great &amp; very detailed howto do it using batch files.<br>
  Other approaches are still welcomed... :)</p>