[Linuxsampler-devel] dependency to boost library?

[Christian S. <chr...@ep...>]

Hi!

I'm currently thinking about adding a dependency in LS to the boost library:

	http://www.boost.org

It has many convenient, portable classes and templates and part of it will 
make it into the upcoming C++ standard one day.

One thing I could really need at the moment is this:

	http://www.boost.org/boost/optional.hpp

because the classes I designed for the driver configuration issue have 
optional return values, means a method might return a value but doesnt have 
to (e.g. keywords DEPENDS, RANGE_MIN, RANGE_MAX etc. from the new LSCP 
draft), see http://www.boost.org/libs/optional/doc/optional.html for more 
about this topic.

So the question now is do you think its worth to add this dependency or should 
I just rewrite / copy the relevant part of "this optional" template for our 
purpose? I mean it might be overkill to add this lib only for the small 
amount I need (about 30 lines) but maybe we need something else from this lib 
one day?

CU
Christian