On 11/8/05, Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> wrote:
Why would we use a back end? Why bother making a Boost XML library if we're just going to make a wrapper that punts to a XML-specific open-source library? If we're not going to just mirror the back end, then we going to have to configure translations between our C++ front end and the back end, which could include allocations.
I haven't seen an answer to your questions, but I should pose the same ones. I thought a boost wrapper should only be used for system libraries but not for thinks like libxml2 Personally, I strongly dislike the wrapper for thinks like libxml2. I think it devalues what boost is about ! The only argument I've seen for not writing the back end is that is a lot of additional work