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James E. King III commented on THRIFT-4441:
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If we allow the option to either build with or without boost, we create a
build-time and packaging-time branch whereby packagers have to distribute two
libraries - one that builds against boost and supports C++03, and one that does
not build against boost and only supports C++11 or later. Given older versions
of thrift support both boost and C++03, we should consider dropping support for
boost and C++03 at the same time. Then the packaging dependencies are
simplified, but more importantly there is only one C++ runtime library to be
built (apart from the normal debug/release variants). Folks who need the boost
interface, or need C++03 support can always use Thrift 0.12.0 or earlier.
> C++: support building lib without Boost
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> Key: THRIFT-4441
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4441
> Project: Thrift
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++ - Compiler, C++ - Library
> Affects Versions: 0.11.0, 0.12.0
> Reporter: Francois Ferrand
> Priority: Major
> Labels: boost, c++11
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> It would be great to support compiling Thrift library without boost: in
> C++11, most of the things are already integrated, and it is often not
> practical to integrate boost, esp. in embedded projects.
> Some steps have already been done (esp. THRIFT-2221) to support building user
> code without boost, but it would be nice to allow building completely without
> boost.
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