On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Vladimir Prus
Sachin Garg wrote:
Header-only libraries are great as that eliminates the need for building the libraries and then linking with them. But not all libraries in boost are header only, which is an inconvenience.
Is this only because of 'legacy', and with time all libraries will move towards being header only? Or is there some technical requirement due to which some libraries just can't ever be header-only?
This question was discussed on Boost mailing lists at depth. Have you searched for those prior discussions?
Can you please provide link to that thread? I tried a few google queries but they didn't show up any in-depth discussion. THIS thread in on first page for "boost header only" (without quotes) and some others I found discuss only which ones are header only and which ones are not. SG