On 5/1/06, Cyrille Dunant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's not lazyness, I talked about char* removal and the ellipsis problem > with Stéphane Magnenat, he told me to look at boost since we already depend > on it. If you have a better idea, fine, please expose it. > Reimplement everything all the time isn't a good solution too but if you > have an idea to replace xxxprintf wich is not a cut n paste of boost, I'm > open (even if there is work as opposed to what you said) No, now, it is too late anyway, we already depend on boost, so we might as well use it... Of course, _stripping_ the boost dependency would be a worthwhile endeavour :) -- -- Cyrille Dunant -- EPFL-IMX-LMC -- Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy. _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
Dependancies are by no means evil, they are quite the opposite. The dependancy itself can be a pain, but by depending on the library, you have saved yourself countless hours of programming, and countless more hours of debugging. Plus, if you have used a reputable library, you are likely getting the code from someone who knows the topic of the library *better* *than* *you*, which means it may have been designed better than your way. As well, the added dependancy isn't much of a pain at all. So what if you have to download and compile an extra library when you reinstall your os. 5 minutes of work, 10 minutes if your slow. Excuse me, but spending hours writing code yourself to save 5 minutes downloading from someone else is a very, very stupid idea _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
