[Log4cpp-devel] integration of Boost libraries

[Bastiaan B. <Bas...@li...>]

Hi,
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For release 0.3.0 I'd like to address two issues:
1) multithreading support.
2) object ownership: share Appenders, Layouts, Filters, etc. between =
multiple Categories and Appenders without having to worry about memory =
management.
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Regarding multithreading support, several people have pointed me to the =
Boost threading library (see www.boost.org) for portable MT support.
For addressing the second issue Boost also seems to provide the =
necessary code, in the form of its shared pointers.
So, barring any convincing arguments against using Boost, it will a =
dependency of 0.3.0 and upwards.
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Since I have no experience with Boost yet, I'm very open to suggestions =
or help on how to integrate Boost in log4cpp. The Boost people recommend =
to simply dump the Boost headers files your project needs in a boost =
subdirecty within your project. This has the distinct advantage of not =
requiring people to have Boost installed. However, if people already use =
Boost in their projects the version in log4cpp may conflict with it.=20
Does anyone have a nice setup to handle this from autoconf, e.g. =
'--with-boost=3D'?=20
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Thanks,
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Bastiaan
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