On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:02:38PM +0100, jeremy rosen wrote: > I'll just reply about the boost part... > > yes it was discussed, and the idea of adding BOOST was accepted on principle > > the problem that made us accept boost at the time was solved differently and > thus, boost was never added. > > so yes, let's add boost, let's convert as much usage as possible to using > boost.
I'll only add one library of boost, but we can add others later. Smart pointers might be really helpful in some areas. > the only "trick" is to give all packagers early warnings to iron out all OS > specific bugs as early as possible to avoid having disgruntled users. Ivanovic will warn them with the mail for 1.2.12. I already wrote some code and will commit that after tagging 1.2.12. zlib is already used for the pngs so the only additional extra dependency is boost.iostreams[1]. For Debian installing libboost-iostreams-dev did the trick. [1] http://boost.org/libs/iostreams/doc/index.html Regards, Mark de Wever aka Mordante/SkeletonCrew _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
