RE: [boost] Re: Is there interest in a decimal floating-point cla ss?

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-20 14:56:22

On Thu, 20 May 2004 15:10:32 -0400, Max Khesin wrote
> No I can't so I recant :). 
> m.
> 
> > From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave_at_[hidden]]
> > 
> > Unless you can cite an actual library guideline somewhere that rules
> > out such a wrapper, I guess you're wrong to "doubt boost library
> > guidelines would allow including a wrapper over a C library."
> > Parts of uBlas work that way with FORTRAN libraries, IIUC.

You could get the impression from reading the page below that reusing external
libraries is against boost policy:

http://www.boost.org/more/library_reuse.htm

However, it's clear to me from previous list discussion and the fact that
libraries like threads, filesystem, and python can't even exist without
building on other external libraries.

So for the decimal floating point library, as long as the licensing makes
sense, I can't see why it would be a problem.

Jeff