Re: [Openexr-devel] boost versions

[Larry Gritz]

I'm not sure I understand people's objection to Boost, especially for the portions that are header-only.  It's solid, very well-vetted, nicely cross-platform (HW, OS, compiler), and you can be confident that it will continue being maintained for a long long time.  With high frequency, its solutions to problems are sufficiently best-of-class that they become part of the C++ standard itself, with few changes.

Now then, when I write software, I am careful to only use Boost *internally*, I never ever allow one of their types to become part of my public APIs.  The design of its packages do vary in their elegance, and I only use a subset.  I second the notion that there isn't an especially good substitute for boost::python (though I would be happier if it had been part of the Python distro itself).

On Aug 20, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Christopher Horvath wrote:

Assuming C++11 is being used for the "tr1" stuff that boost provides, the big dependency that's difficult to shake is boost::python. It's absolutely wonderful for what it does, elegant and lightweight.  I've tried swig as an alternative, and it's okay, but boost::python is definitely nicer.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Richard Addison-Wood <address@hidden> wrote:

Personally, I would recommend avoiding any dependencies on boost.

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