[bt-devel] Using QSharedPointer instead of boost pointer (correction)

Eeli Kaikkonen eekaikko at mail.student.oulu.fi
Tue Apr 28 12:55:55 MST 2009


Martin Gruner wrote:
> Hi Eeli,
> 
> I don't exactly understand. The patch already changes the source code files 
> _and_ also the CMakeLists.txt to forget about the boost dependency. Is there 
> something missing?
> 
> mg
> 
> On Monday 27 April 2009 07:28:36 Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
>> Quoting Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden at fastmail.fm>:
>>> Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>>>> It saves end users downloading a library (libboost) just so they can
>>>> install BibleTime.
>>> My mistake.  I just checked, and no it doesn't :)
>>>
>>> I looks like libboost-dev is needed at build time but no part of
>>> libboost is linked by the runtime binary package at all.  In which case,
>>> it really doesn't matter, since the number of people who will be
>>> compiling the package from source is very low.
>> Naturally it should be removed from the cmake build system as well as
>> the source code. Martin, can you update the patch?
>>
>> --Eeli Kaikkonen

Sorry, I didn't bother to look into the patch but supposed that because 
Jonathan told about the dependency it was accidentally left out or 
something. So, Jonathan, can you tell how the libboost-dev is needed at 
build time? What's the problem?

--Eeli Kaikkonen



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