Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > My preferences are as follows: > > 0. Standard C++ > 1. Something with the same apis/behaviour as standard C++ > 2. Use something that is destined for standardization. > 3. third party libraries. > > In a lot of cases 1 & 2 is solved by boost, when the stdlib/toolchain at > hand does not support it directly.
At the moment I was not asking about using boost dependency as such, but whether there are still valid reasons for maintaining it in our devel tree and distribute it within tarbals (the actual size of boost/ is 2x bigger than src/ btw). Pavel
