Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] dependency to boost library?

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> 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
> 

Well, I just looked at boost from a user's perspective. It approaches 
7MB of code. I don't know how often that library changes, but I don't 
like the idea of having to build it very often to keep up to date with 
your work.

Maybe you can copy the 30+ lines for now, but plan on adding the 
dependency later when LS is more stable and closer to some sort of real 
usable release?

Thanks for taking input.

Cheers,
Mark