on Wed May 13 2009, "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
JOAQUIN M. LOPEZ MUÑOZ wrote:
Hi,
A few weeks ago we had a discussion about the convenience of making part of Boost.Threads, namely mutexes and locks, header-only. Some (including Anthony Williams) supported the idea, others disliked it:
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2009/04/150524.php
What the final decision on this issue is? If positive (i.e. favoring the change), can it be expected to be done for Boost 1.40?
I haven't read all of that thread, but why not do something similar to what Boost.Test does and provide an header-only/"include" version, with reduced functionality?
In principle it's possible to write the library such that you can use it either way, with full functionality. Not sure whether that's worth the effort, but it has been proposed on this list before. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com