Use of Boost library classes in kdecore?

[David Jarvie]

On Saturday 07 July 2007 01:40:21 Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Friday 06 July 2007, David Jarvie wrote:
> > There are two options if the Boost class is to be used: either make
> > kdelibs require the Boost library, which is already required for
> > kdepimlibs; or put a copy of the relevant headers (at least 7 of them at
> > a cursory glance) from the Boost library into kdecore. As far as I can
> > see, the Boost licence (http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) would not
> > present a problem for the latter option.
>
> I actually tried the latter option at one point for one of my programs.  I
> don't think I copied over enough headers or something however because I
> wasn't able to get it to work.  I would say that copying over the code is
> the most convienient option, but isn't boost only required at compile-time
> for shared_ptr?  If so then boost is already required by kdepimlibs I
> thought.

It is required by kdepimlibs at compile-time, but not yet by kdelibs.

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David Jarvie.
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