Re: depending on boost?

Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there were any objection about depending on boost?
> AbiCollab already, but I'd love to be able to use it in the main tree.
>
> Several reason:
>
> boost::shared_ptr<>
> boost::scoped_ptr<>
> boost::numeric_cast<>
>
> That's for starter.
>
> boost::bind would be very much convenient too.
>
> Then using Boost.Test to improve the testing, including for unit
> testing... (the current framework is... I plead guilty)
>
> Etc.
>
> Boost works very well on all our platform. It is available in most
> distribution as several packages already depend on it.
>
> Anyobdy against?

I am weary of yet another dependency; how big a dependency this is, and
what else is it going to pull in ?

Tomas
Received on Thu Apr 5 09:53:31 2007