Re: depending on boost?

Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
>
>> I am weary of yet another dependency; how big a dependency this is, and
>> what else is it going to pull in ?
>>
>
> As for the size:
> 1/ I don't thing it matters
> 2/ it is easy to install for Windows people
> 3/ most of it are just inline header, no lib needed.
>
> And it pulls nothing else.
>
> Compared to the glib requirement, I would say *small*.
>
>
> Hub
One thing to note is that AbiCollab currently requires it, so I will
have to get it working to port that to Win32 (hopefully during SoC)
anyway. I'm not sure exactly how boost works (if it compiles in
statically, if it's a dll, or what), so I'd have to look into that. The
makefiles are a bit of a pain to deal with, but I think I can probably
make a go of it now if there's nothing too special about boost. I'm
just concerned about binary size, personally, since we increased
installer size a little with the new dependencies (and decreased a
little less by using shared libraries). For the latest Win nightlies
and size, http://www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi updates itself, I
haven't checked recently to see how big they're getting.

Ryan

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