On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de> wrote:
2) Why not provide a 'libboost' which includes all the libraries linked together. If they are dynamically linked this shouldn't create a large overhead.
Actually, this is an interesting new idea. At least, it would make several things simpler. Boost historically allows users to use parts of it without having the whole forced upon them, I guess some people see this as an important feature. However, the global boost-all library wouldn't prevent that, it would just be an alternative. I would create a TRAC ticket for that, at least that would serve as central collection point for the pros and cons of that design.
Read the subject line. I wouldn't call piling everything together modularization. :) Also, wouldn't this increase the size of the executable? I'm not an expert but I think that by default GCC doesn't remove unused code because a .so loaded later could try to link with it. This would put even more pressure on making libraries header-only. Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode