On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Mark Mentovai <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> n179...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Does Chromium use boost library? In the source tree, i see there is a
> > 'boost' directory under 'third-party'.
> > It appears to be an incomplete version of boost 1.36. I said
> > incomplete since a lot of directories of boost are missing?
> >
> > Does anyone know why is that?
>
> (Authoritatively)
>
> As previously mentioned, boost was only present in support of gmock.
> The gmock-boost dependency was dropped in r18923, and all of boost was
> supposed to be removed in r20159. It seems that the removal was
> incomplete. It got rid of all of the files in third_party/boost, but
> not that directory or any of its subdirectories.
>
> I've just committed r23531, which removes the third_party/boost
> directory structure.
It seems that git rm didn't delete the directories themselves. :( Thanks
for fixing Mark!
As for why the boost structure is incomplete, when we added it for gmock, we
stripped it down to the minimal set of files needed to support tr1/tuple
since that was al gmock needed. But all of that is gone now.
-Albert
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