On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:24:12PM +0000, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:30:11PM +0100, Mark de Wever wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 07:02:38PM +0100, jeremy rosen wrote:
> > > I'll just reply about the boost part...
> > >
> > > yes it was discussed, and the idea of adding BOOST was accepted on 
> > > principle
> 
> I do not remember any discussion on this list ...

It was [1]. Also we already use some boost stuff, but it has been copied
to the source tree. At least lexical_cast with some nice enhancements.

> As far as I know Boost has no stable API or ABI. Be prepared to depend
> on a single library version which may not be included in any distribution.
> 
> I also noticed that many Boost maintainers do not respond and others
> don't want to commit bug fixes for other libraries. Even many very simple
> patches for build errors are ignored.

Any references for these claims?

Regards,
Mark de Wever

[1] https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-dev/2007-05/msg00110.html

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