Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Dependence on std::string

[Matt G. <mgr...@in...>]

Glyn Matthews wrote:

> Another thing I see is that boost filesystem and boost program_options 
> have
> dealt with a very similar problem to this.  But if we use the same 
> approach
> (see the file "boost/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp" )  then we'd have to
> accept the use of a cpp source file, meaning we will no longer have a 
> header
> only library.


Why is that so bad?  More to the point, why would it be a requirement 
for something as big as a network protocol library to be header-only?


Matt