Re: [boost] But it would Re: [gil] [announcement] New IO lib

From: Jonathan Franklin (franklin.jonathan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-26 17:38:36

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Tom Brinkman <reportbase_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> The trend is for all "new" libraries to be header only, unless there is an
> overwhelming, and I mean absolutely overwhelming reason not too.

<snip>

> and becouse the filesystem library
> is is not a header only library, it makes using it by other libraries
> very problematic.

Can you please elaborate on what makes a non-header-only library so very
problematic?

Not to throw gas on the fire, but simply 'Not being "trendy"' is not a
cogent argument.

Thanks,

Jon