Re: [Vxl-maintainers] BOOST revisit

[Gehua Y. <ya...@rp...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vxl...@li... [mailto:vxl-
> mai...@li...] On Behalf Of Brad King
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 5:07 PM
> To: Gehua Yang
> Cc: vxl...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Vxl-maintainers] BOOST revisit
> 
> Gehua Yang wrote:
> > I am thinking about the possibility of importing BOOST into VXL,
> > possibly in V3P.  It may be treated as Level 1 (so as not to contaminate
> > the Level 1 core libraries).
> >
> > This issues was brought up once in the mailing list  (see
> >
> http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=mlists&group_id=24293&words=
> boost).
> >
> > But no conclusion was drawn.   It seemed people liked the functionality
> > of BOOST, but worried about its compatibility with broken compilers such
> > as VC6.   Now that we have dropped the support for broken compilers, it
> > is time to revisit this issue.
> >
> > For those who have experienced with BOOST and possibly used it with
> > VXL,  please comment on BOOST's functionality, stability, and possible
> > issues if we are going to import it into VXL.
> 
> FYI, the boost source tree is larger than the entire vxl tree.  Just the
> header-only part of boost is about half vxl's current size.
> 
> -Brad
> 

Thanks for pointing it out.  Personally, I am interested in the Boost Graph
Lib (BGL).  Others, such as the serialization lib, may have potential use.
I am looking for a consistent way to start importing BOOST libraries. 

Gehua