Re: [boost] [system] Header-only Boost.System by default ?

Subject: Re: [boost] [system] Header-only Boost.System by default ?
From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-09 23:15:02

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> The only correct and safe way to use error categories is from a shared
> library. In header only mode, multiple instances may appear and thus no
> longer be proper singletons. Stuff breaks in this situation, badly.

If this is true, and I hope that it is not, then we better do
something about it and soon, because forcing header-only libraries
that want to provide their own error categories to put them in a
shared library is a non-starter.

Thanks