Re: [Boost-users] Suggestion to the packaging of boost libraries
Hi,
Just courious. But how do you define what the frequently used libraries are?
Regards, chenwj
Thank for the question. I think the word "frequently-use" is quite ambiguous. And everyone works might be difference. I my opinion, smart_ptr, regex, tr1 are something that should exists in standard C++ library, like many modern languages today. But of course, if this concept is accepted by boost community. The decision about "frequently-used-libraries" must be decided by boost developer team. Regards, Taworn T.
I guess you mean the libraries that are not domain-specific but more like language library extension? I remember another discussion about this very toppic earlier in the year. On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 15:37, Taworn T. <taworn@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
Just courious. But how do you define what the frequently used libraries are?
Regards, chenwj
Thank for the question. I think the word "frequently-use" is quite ambiguous. And everyone works might be difference.
I my opinion, smart_ptr, regex, tr1 are something that should exists in standard C++ library, like many modern languages today.
But of course, if this concept is accepted by boost community. The decision about "frequently-used-libraries" must be decided by boost developer team.
Regards, Taworn T.
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I guess you mean the libraries that are not domain-specific but more like language library extension? I remember another discussion about this very toppic earlier in the year.
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 15:37, Taworn T. <taworn@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
Just courious. But how do you define what the frequently used libraries are?
Thank for the question. I think the word "frequently-use" is quite ambiguous. And everyone works might be difference.
But of course, if this concept is accepted by boost community. The decision about "frequently-used-libraries" must be decided by boost developer team.
I think that the definition of ‘frequent-use’ continuously changes as one uses the library and encounters/learns more and more useful tools. I would vote that the packaging remains as it is. If one wants only specific headers, I think there was a discussion many moons ago about a tool which would extract the ‘used’ headers for minimizing a final project footprint. Ray -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
On 12/27/10 2:30 PM, in article 01af01cba5fc$7dbf45e0$793dd1a0$@oneunified.net, "Raymond Burkholder" wrote:
I guess you mean the libraries that are not domain-specific but more like language library extension? I remember another discussion about this very toppic earlier in the year.
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 15:37, Taworn T. <taworn@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,
Just courious. But how do you define what the frequently used libraries are?
Thank for the question. I think the word "frequently-use" is quite ambiguous. And everyone works might be difference.
But of course, if this concept is accepted by boost community. The decision about "frequently-used-libraries" must be decided by boost developer team.
I think that the definition of frequent-use¹ continuously changes as one uses the library and encounters/learns more and more useful tools. I would vote that the packaging remains as it is.
If one wants only specific headers, I think there was a discussion many moons ago about a tool which would extract the used¹ headers for minimizing a final project footprint.
Ray
That tool is "bcp" which is part of the standard boost source download. You can use it to extract a subset of boost for your project or maybe to turn into a sub-part of your project. What I find amusing is that in order to get shared_ptr<> you end up getting something like 3MB worth of source files. Mike Jackson
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