Boost libraries

[Lior Mualem]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11.04.09 09:10:21, Lior Mualem wrote:
>> Are there any project wide restrictions on using boost libraries?
>
> No, we had a dependency on boost when the teamwork plugin was in trunk,
> but thats gone since quite some time now.
>
> The only thing thats a bit problematic with boost is that kdelibs ships
> its own FindBoost, which is much worse at finding boost than the one
> thats shipped with CMake 2.6.2 or 2.6.3. I'll have to talk to Alex about
> removing the one in kdelibs, but if thats not yet possible I suggest to
> copy the one from cmake 2.6.3 into kdevplatform/cmake/modules.
OK, I'll do that.

>
>> Specifically I want to use boost::multi_index_container.
>> On the contrary, if anyone knows of a KDE / QT equivalent, I'd appreciate it.
>
> One possibility would be to store multiple standard containers. I'm
> guessing the content of the container would be duchain-stuff, and thats
> usually refcounted (IIRC), so there shouldn't be much memory overhead
> when doing that.
That is what I wanted to avoid - the need to maintain multiple containers.

>
> However I can see how that would be a bit inconvenient, so feel free to
> use the boost container.
>
> Andreas
>
> --
> So this is it.  We're going to die.
>
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