Re: [boost] [Booster] Or boost is useless for library developers

Subject: Re: [boost] [Booster] Or boost is useless for library developers
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-15 12:34:16

Artyom wrote:
>> Well, instead of writing glue code and wondering (for
>> example) how to encapsulate the usage of booster::shared_ptr
>> or pondering over ownership questions/issues if I transfer
>> the pointer to a boost::shared_ptr, I'd prefer cppcms API to
>> use boost-original.
>>
>> I'd compile the library myself, anyway, which relieves me
>> of the ABI troubles.
>>
>>     
>
> My current stable version of CppCMS uses boost in its API and relays on
> boost-signals, boost-iostreams, boost-system and boost-regex.
>
> Have you tryed to deploy such library to remote host? I think you hadn't?
>   
I do that almost every Wednesday around noon with about 100 libraries, 
not kidding :-)
> Even I'm myself, had huge troubles deploying hotfix to production server
> that was running cppcms because the production server had different
> version of boost. And both servers were under my total control...
>   
Boost is part of the deployment. Thus, I can always rely on having the 
right version.

Regards,

Roland