Daryle Walker wrote:
Corrado Zoccolo wrote:
John, if you are going to refactor, probably you can follow the proposals that circulated on the list, of supporting both approaches. Basically, you can give an header that has only declarations, one with (inline) definitions (inline can be controlled with preprocessor macro), and a source file that will include the definitions with disabled inlines.
In this way, everyone can choose whether to include the inline definitions, or compile in its project the source file with out-of-line versions of the functions.
I think that when one has the option of compiling the library using his preferred build system, this need for header only library will just disappear, and other considerations as compile times will weight more.
I'm un-dropping off the grid to mention that the Boost mandatory source files should be able to be directly incorporated into a user's build system. It's been possible in the past. Maybe we should suggest to Monotone to try that first.
That is, and will always be true for regex: as I'm tied of saying over and over, it's "just a bunch of sources", no magic involved :-) John.