Re: depending on boost?

> > 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 ?

Boost is for 90% a collection of templates, so it won't drag in any
dependency.[1]

Marc

[1] Except if you use the more 'obscure' parts, such as boost::thread,
which requires you to link with -lpthread on linux
Received on Thu Apr 5 18:26:40 2007