Stefan Seefeld wrote:
Paul A. Bristow wrote:
Might we enter into discussion with GMP and mfpr developers to get explicit permission to package their library within Boost?
Is there any reason to require boost to be self-contained ? Why can't it depend on external libraries for some cases, especially if those libraries are already freely available and hugely popular, thus the chances that they are already present are high. I agree that it would be good not to expose this dependency through the API, though, so if it got replaced, API compatibility would be maintainable.
You mean, the way Boost.Regex can be configured to use IBM's ICU library for handling Unicode? And Boost.Python requires Python? -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com