--- Thomas Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Maddock wrote: > | > | One final point - there was a reason that I moved > regex to use automatic > | library selection and ABI fixing - without it I > was getting a tonne of > | support requests along the lines of "Your library > doesn't work, it just > | crashes when I call anything", which almost always > turned out to be caused > | by ODR violations (either the user had changed an > ABI option, or had > linked > | to the wrong runtime-library-build variant), these > basically stopped > | overnight once I modified my code to stop those > (this was all in pre-boost > | days BTW). > > FWIW I do believe that automatic library selection > is a broken concept > in praxis. It causes no end of problems when there > is more than one > library that does it. In the end you end up with the > same situation as > before the user has to know about the different > runtime libraries and > how to handle them. > > Furthermore I do believe that dependencies should be > something that the > programmer is aware of and that they should be > actively managed by the > programmer. Automatic library selection hides > dependencies sometimes up > to the point that dll's aren't shipped to the > customer. > > Said that I can see your point John.
I agree with John. I'd be much better if boost provided a clear description on how to build the library manually. I am having a bunch of problems with automatic boost builds especially when they include dlls. I also think that exporting C++ classes is a broken concept too. It is even worse than the automatic builds. Just my $0,02 Eugene __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
