In addition the issue is with the Qt base GUI and Qt has all the APIs
necessary to accomplish what you need. There is  no need for boost to
fix the problem.

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Mike Jackson                     www.bluequartz.net
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BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
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On Jan 6, 2012, at 1:12, Michael Hertling <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/31/2011 02:10 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> I'd like to introduce boost into CMake for this.
>
> Whenever I've advocated CMake as build system, one of the strongest
> selling points has been its self-sufficiency, i.e. the fact that it
> does not have any external dependencies except for a C++ environment.
> IMO, each further dependency on external packages - be it Boost, be it
> Qt or what ever - would compromise CMake's chances to be preferred to
> other build systems. For this reason, I'd support Bill's position and
> recommend to be particularly conservative w.r.t. the introduction of
> additional dependencies into the CMake executable.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
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