Making kdelibs depend on Boost, Was: Re: FindKdepimLibs.cmake

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:19, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 10:14:32 am Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > Von: Allen Winter <winter at kde.org>
> >
> > > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 5:56:05 am Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > is that the right approach, is there a better/preferred mechanism?
> > >
> > > I don't believe that any libs in kdelibs nor kdepimlibs should be
> > > optionally built.
> > > We need to either 1) make boost a hard dependency or 2) copy parts of
> > > boost
> > > into kdepimlibs or 3) ??
> >
> > Syndication was made optional because I wanted to build kdepimlibs
> > without boost on win32 at this time. We needed some time to get some
> > (working) boost headers. As we now have them, it can get a hard
> > dependency.
>
> Ok, thanks Christian.
>
> I will make boost a hard dependency.

When ? 
The last time somebody suggested to make boost a hard dependency it was 
rejected. So this should be at least discussed on this list.

Bye
Alex