Re: [boost] Can you please elaborate on what makes a non-header-only library so very Re: But it would Re: [gil] [announcement] New IO lib

From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-26 18:10:09

Tom Brinkman wrote:
>>> Can you please elaborate on what makes a non-header-only library so very
>>> problematic?
> 
> Its probably more a UNIX thing, I'm not sure if windows developers
> could care one way or another.
> But on LINUX/UNIX, there is a central repository of pre-built
> libraries that we syncronize our
> builds against.  

Why don't you rebuild your dependent libraries along with your code? 
Then you are guaranteed to have the right stuff. I mean, you already 
said you would like to recompile everything over and over with 
header-only stuff. Might as well make it official.

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Sohail Somani
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