Judd Tracy wrote: > Boost only needs to be installed if you use certain features. Shared > pointers is not one of those features in which it needs to be > installed.
I like boost myself, and have used parts of it in different projects. But, I want to clarify the sense of "installed" here. I'd differentiate the multiple meanings of "installed" into headers-installed and libraries-installed. To use any part of boost in your code, you (the person compiling the boost-using project) must have the boost development kit with headers installed. This is one component that OSG doesn't currently require. It's pretty version-safe -- generally if you require boost x.y.z, any version > than that should be fine. Judd is right in that most of boost does its magic at compile-time and doesn't need binary libraries at link-time. However, it seems it is still possible to get in trouble when you mix binaries compiled by different people who used different versions of boost -- whether they were using compile-time or link-time portions of boost. Because OSG incorporates other third-party libraries (such as Collada) that incorporate boost and are difficult for individual OSG developers or the project maintainers to recompile every time something changes, we've run afoul of this problem and are gun-shy. The real question is -- does boost even offer a smart pointer type that replicates ref_ptr, or is all this a pointless exercise? -- Chris 'Xenon' Hanson, omo sanza lettere Xenon AlphaPixel.com PixelSense Landsat processing now available! http://www.alphapixel.com/demos/ "There is no Truth. There is only Perception. To Perceive is to Exist." - Xen _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
