Re: Reducing dependency on Boost.Regex

From: Francois Kritzinger (francois_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-03-13 13:09:43

On 2023/03/13 14:07, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> On 3/13/23 15:00, Boris Kolpackov via Boost wrote:
>> A quick note on our experience reducing dependency on Boost.Regex
>> (and thus ICU) in build2 packages for Boost 1.81.0. Now only the
>> following (leaf) libraries unconditionally depend on Boost.Regex:
>>
>> * Boost.Convert
>> * Boost.DLL
>> * Boost.Log
> 
> Boost.Log can be configured to use std::regex or Boost.Xpressive as an
> alternative to Boost.Regex.

However Boost.Log also depends on Boost.Spirit which depends on 
Boost.Regex so that's a hard dependency.