Re: [Boost-users] Suggestion to the packaging of boost libraries

On 12/27/10 2:30 PM, in article 01af01cba5fc$7dbf45e0$793dd1a0$@oneunified.net, "Raymond Burkholder" wrote:

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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.

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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 15:37, Taworn T. wrote:

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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.

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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 Œfrequent-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 Œused¹ 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