Re: creating a vector of a vector of Gtk::ToggleButton

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 13:53, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:05, Carl Nygard wrote:

> An option of locking the reference count would also be nice, for thread safety 
> purposes, but that would then make it dependent on a particular 
> locking/threading library and/or particular processor instructions for 
> individual platforms.
> 

Alexandrescu has some nifty idioms to deal with this type of thing.  I'd
actually be interested in trying it out, although I've read somewhere
that making smartptr's threadsafe is difficult/impossible (I think it
had to do with non-invasive types).

> I don't think the LGPL works with this kind of templated library.  You would 
> probably need to employ the modified GPL under which libstdc++ is distributed 
> in g++ (this allows users to incorporate it, including headers, in users' 
> code without GPLing the users' code).

Thanks for the info.  Perhaps public domain or BSD is best.  Like I
said, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Regards,
Carl