Re: C++ Portable Components: poco

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 21:59 +0200, Maik Beckmann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> What your're thinking about this "all in wonder" library
>         HP:
>         http://appinf.com/poco/info/index.html
>         
>         Sourceforge:
>         http://sourceforge.net/projects/poco
> 
> It's under boost-license and has been written for embedded system. 
> I wrote a ebuild for my gentoo system and it takes about 14MB (without
> docs)
>         localhost poco # equery size poco
>         [ Searching for packages matching poco... ]
>         * size of dev-cpp/poco-1.1.2
>                    Total files : 417
>                    Total size  : 13907.10 KiB

That's probably mostly all debugging symbols. Regular distributions
would provide stripped libraries. 

> The reason why I'm asking this list is . . . will I be flamed if I'm
> going to use this kind of none-community libs?

I've never heard of it before. It's open source. You should use what you
like, and I can't imagine why anybody would want you not to.

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