Re: [boost] Link dependencies

Subject: Re: [boost] Link dependencies
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-06 09:06:59

Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Are you sure users want to use individual libraries? Do you see calls for 
> that from users?

This was certainly true in the past. It is why bcp exists. shared_ptr.hpp 
for years even supported compilation with a completely empty config.hpp on a 
reasonably conforming compiler, for people who didn't even want 
Boost.Config.

It may be less true today though, as it's gotten way easier to "use Boost" 
in a project. But there are still places where Boost as a whole is banned, 
yet a module may be able to slip through.