[bt-devel] new dependency: boost

[Martin Gruner]

Oops. I didn't mean smart_ptr (which is the collection of pointer classes), 
but shared_ptr (like scoped_ptr, but has reference-counting and is copyable).

mg

Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 schrieb Martin Gruner:
> Dear friends,
>
> I just removed our own scoped_resource implementation from SVN. In order to
> professionalize our code I decided to add a new (header-only) dependancy:
> the famous boost library (http://boost.org). It contains a scoped_ptr
> implementation which is probably better than ours. And MUCH more than that.
> See for example the documentation on smart_ptr for how you can do a very
> simple low-overhead garbage-collection in C++. With Boost and QT we ain't
> gonna need Java no more. =)
>
> For those who don't know boost yet: It is a collection of well-designed,
> peer-reviewed, portable and thoroughly tested headers which extend the
> power of C++. Many of them are expected to be included in the next C++
> standard (C++0x). They make heavy use of template-based programming and
> therefore (most of them) do not require a separate library to be installed
> and linked against (= header-only).
>
> You need to install libboost-dev to be able to compile BibleTime from now
> on.
>
> Developers are welcome to use other parts of (header-only, for now) boost
> than scoped_ptr, which is currently used, if it is appropriate.
>
> God bless,
>
> mg
>
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