Boost only needs to be installed if you use certain features. Shared pointers is not one of those features in which it needs to be installed. That was the point that Ismail was probably trying to bring forward. But boost shared pointers are a different beast from osg's.
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Ulrich Hertlein <u.hertl...@sandbox.de>wrote: > On 31/5/09 9:06 PM, Ismail Pazarbasi wrote: > >> 2009/5/31 Ulrich Hertlein<u.hertl...@sandbox.de>: >> >>> Maybe because boost isn't exactly a light dependency to carry around? >>> ... >>> >> >> sorry but what's so heavy about boost to carry around? Do you use >> signal, thread or spirit, or files that require built shared libraries >> that need to be deployed to target machine? >> > > Well first of all it needs to be installed on every development system on > every development target. To have a consistent environment it might be > better to be built from source instead of binary packages. > > Then there might be issues with having to ship shared libraries, > runtime/linker problems with older distributions, etc. > > Maybe not, but you have to admit there's a lot more required than just work > with what comes with the standard. > > > Cheers, > /ulrich > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org >
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