On Monday, 31 de October de 2011 10:23:12 you wrote: > Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Sounds interesting to be present and discuss with the Boost developers > > ways to improve collaboration. Maybe someone will finally convince them > > to maintain binary compatibility so their libraries could become > > *actually* useful as part of a larger API... > > Can we similarly be convinced to adopt generic programming practices? > Actually we are... we just keep re-inventing their wheels ;-) > > I think the important question is not necessarily binary compatibility. I, > for one, would love to be able to just *use* Boost inside Qt, in particular > source-only libraries. As long as we don't touch it in our binary interface > the lack of BC promise shouldn't affect us. Think TR1 and C++11-features > available with legacy compilers. > > But anyway, that's a big flame-war about to happen ;-)
The header-only libraries should be usable inside Qt without ill side-effects.
So I'd say go ahead and use it. Just be mindful that your colleagues may not
know boost as well as you do, so comment your code well :-)
If you do that, it might be a good idea to import the headers into
src/3rdparty (after proper exceptions are granted under the CLA). At least
until we have a decent configure system to more easily detect the presence /
absence of libraries.
> > However, despite the change of name, the conference is still a Boost
> > conference, at least according to the email you sent. There was absolutely
> > no opening in the text for any C++ library, other than Boost and how
> > those other libraries could interoperate with it.
>
> Boost is a peer-reviewed collection of libraries. There are constantly new
> libraries being developed and trying to be part of the official
> distribution. In that sense, "Boost" is a very loose definition that can
> easily include a "Boost Qt Interoperability Library" or the effort to build
> that bridge -- both ways.
I understand. And that library would seem to be welcome in the conference.
But suppose I want to come and present Qt only, just how to use it, with no
relationship to Boost or STL at all. When I read the call for submissions, it
didn't seem to me that this was a welcome topic.
> > If someone knows these people and can ask them if they are interested in
> > opening up some more, I guess the Qt community would be more interested in
> > the conference.
>
> I can be a middleman, if one is needed.
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