Re: [Rosegarden-devel] guitar_chord_editor build failure

[Stephen T. <st...@to...>]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 22:30 +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> On Sunday 07 Aug 2005 22:26, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > Ah.  libboost-dev is a metapackage for several others, so I'd assumed
> > it probably had all the rest of the stuff in the apt list.  Guess
> > not.
>=20
> btw to forestall Guillaume: Why all the dependencies on Boost?
>=20
>=20
> Chris

I do not prescribe to the philosophy that "If its not developed by us we
don't use it". The boost project has good code for parsing command
lines, performing parsing and testing. I have not found a C++ parsing
library that works as well as the Boost Spirit parsing functionality.

Stephen