Re: [Boost-users] Lean and mean boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Lean and mean boost
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-22 04:47:21

>> > 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.

Please file a bug report if there's a problem, otherwise I - probably - 
don't get to hear about it.

Now that I have, I'll investigate Bimap,

Regards, John.