Re: [Boost-users] Avoiding reinventing the wheel for a public api with binary compatibility in mind

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Avoiding reinventing the wheel for a public api with binary compatibility in mind
From: Nigel Rantor (wiggly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-07 22:13:33

Geoff Hilton wrote:
> 
> bcp sounds interesting but according to 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/tools/bcp/bcp.html (which happens 
> to use boost::shared_ptr as an example), using it would pull in 274 
> header dependencies.

I nearly replied to this yesterday.

I'm wondering what you mean here.

Are you saying:

a) Wow, that's a lot isn't it? Did I do something wrong?

b) Oh, cool. But look, it grabbed a lot of stuff.

c) Other

I don't have access right now to my dev box so I have no idea how many 
dependencies you should expect to see being pulled in.

Regards,

   n