Dean Michael Berris wrote:
Hi Everyone,
To those who are following the development of cpp-netlib (which shall be submitted for review /soon/ as Boost.Netlib), the current state of 0.9-devel and thus what's going to come out officially as 0.9 in a couple of weeks, will not be header-only. Aside from the obvious reason that the compile-times are starting to become unbearable (>10 minutes to build the whole test suite!!) and after noticing that the intended simplicity of the API with tag-metafunction dispatch is limiting the expressiveness of the HTTP client types, the 0.9 release will be the first release that will require an externally linked-in static library.
Just happened to catch this. As a fan for all inline code and having made my own mistake not being aggressive enough with date-time, I say why not make it a configurable option? That way the client code can decide depending on their project structure. Even though I'm well versed in building boost libs I still love it when I don't have to be bothered. Inevitably, I'm working on some project and then I have to shift contexts, get bjam on the machine, include the new lib, etc when I already had that setup for the custom code I'm working. And besides, it's possible that some of us are using external tricks like pre-compiled headers that will reduce compile times. So, you might have something like this #include <boost/netlib_inline.h> versus #include <boost/netlib.h> to control the option. Or, of course, you could go with compiler macros/settings. Bottom line is that you can setup your test suite to use the library so that compile times are fast while still allowing all-inline for the rest of us. Jeff