Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> writes:
| 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).
I guess the case is basically for the same people with old compilers
which tends to sit on old distros.
--
Lgb
