brangdon@cix.compulink.co.uk (Dave Harris) writes: | In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20050417091210.0840a328@mail.rudbek.com> | vawjr@rudbek.com (Victor A. Wagner Jr.) wrote (abridged):
The shear size of boost bothers me in that I don't want to burden my source code control system unnecessarily.
21 meg isn't that much (for the headers)
| Actually it's quite a lot. This is a "new tool" issue - once any new tool | is incorporated into the code, we have to keep it around for ever, even if | it proves useless and we stop using it 6 months later. It's a barrier to | entry, and it would be a lower barrier if boost took 1 meg or 10k. But if you need all you need all... In LyX we use a lot of stuff from Boost, but not all of it so we only provide the headers that we actually need: ca. 8 Mb. And compressed that should be ca. 1 Mb (maybe even less). | Basically I am supporting the idea of splitting boost into a collection of | small, independent packages. But not being able to use boost libraries to implement boost libraries seems very inconvenient. -- Lgb