Re: [Opensg-core] Boost?

[Gerrit V. <vo...@ca...>]

Hi

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:26, Andreas Zieringer wrote:

> Well I'm using boost for quite a long time now and it is really great. 
> Most of "libs" are just header files, so we just need to copy the boost 
> include dir into the OpenSG and we are done. I wouldn't recommend the 
> boost bjam build system. It has some nice ideas but it is more 
> complicated than make. I prefer scons ;-)

As we are still looking for a better make system, SCONS is AFAIS only
a replacement for make not for the combined {configure - make} process,
or am I missing something ? 


> > mpl was one of the things I was thinking, pool too, spirit I definitely
> > want to try, tokenizer maybe, the math stuff maybe, concept_check are
> > interesting too ;-) and of course type_traits ;-)))
> 
> I wrote the whole fhs parser with spirit and it worked. But it was much 
> slower than the flex/bison version (not usable). But for parsing simple 
> things it is really nice.

That's why I was looking at it, not as a full flex/bison replacement
more using only the flex equivalent.

> > 

> If you give me some information where to get the updates I will try to 
> do this.

The latest patches you normally get through HP's support website. A
version update probably only through HP, but there I don't know the 
rules or the persons (at least not in Germany) ;-)). Dirk could either
you or Andreas get in touch with HP's contact person for this ?

gerrit