Re: [Boost-users] Lean and mean boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Lean and mean boost
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-21 16:37:02

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 01:04:41PM -0700, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Lars Viklund <zao_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Your mileage may vary a lot, though.
> >
> > I had a case in #boost last month where an user tried extracting
> > Boost.Bimap with bcp, which failed (reproducably) at pulling in
> > sufficient amounts of MPL. This might be due to heavy Boost.PP usage.
> 
> Yes, bcp does pulls in MPL, that's because it is very conservative,
> which is probably a good thing. At any rate, the resulting Boost is
> much smaller than the whole thing.

Smaller, yes.
Working, no.

I wish there were caveats in the documentation describing these fatal
flaws. Instead, it seems to pride itself on claiming it pulls in
everything, whether it applies for your platform or not.

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Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]