Sohail Somani wrote:
Oh come on guys, aren't we just getting silly? To avoid what? Adding cpp files to the build?
Yeah, actually. Here's a response to your earlier mail: Sohail Somani wrote:
This is a non-issue. With header-only libraries, step 1 is the only thing that disappears and you might even be lucky enough to disable language extensions in your project.
I assure you, given the number of posts on this list and the -user list, building boost is something people have issues with. I've had to answer the 'link errors' question many times for date-time -- even though this is basic knowledge that all developers should have, and it's "all in the docs".
Actually, step 1 is replaced with "try build with bjam, send emails to the mailing list"
Right, and best case, you're into an hour or two of fiddling around that had nothing to do with what you were trying to accomplish -- which is simply to read the docs and use the library. And while I understand the sentiment the C++ programmers have been dealing with this for years, etc, etc.. it's still really nice when getting started with a new lib that the barrier to entry is more like a scripting language than traditional C/C++ libs. Jeff