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

Subject: Re: [boost] [Booster] Or boost is useless for library developers
From: Isidor Zeuner (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-16 21:36:37

> 2010/5/15 Artyom <artyomtnk_at_[hidden]>:
> > Have you tryed to deploy such library to remote host? I think you hadn't?
> >
> > 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...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> To make this easier, I make my applications an external-process
> plugins and compile with static Boost libraries. Then I can deploy
> several applications using different versions of Boost to the same
> server, which is not controlled by me and may have no Boost installed
> at all.
> 

Doesn't reduce that approach portability, at least for the
external-process communication part?

Best regards,

Isidor