Re: [boost] Some statistics about the C++ 11/14 mandatoryBoostlibraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Some statistics about the C++ 11/14 mandatoryBoostlibraries
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-13 20:13:32

Niall Douglas wrote:

> Right now for most boost libraries the strictly needed dependencies are 
> all other Boost libraries.

That's not quite true. See the report at

http://www.pdimov.com/tmp/report-develop-08112c5/module-weights.html

"Weight 5" means that the library needs 5 other libraries to be present.

Boost.Python, in particular, has a weight of 37, with the most coming from 
lexical_cast(35).