Re: gtkmm-extras

[Niko Demmel <niko demmel gmx de>]

On 02/05/2007 23:38, Marko Anastasov wrote:
> У сре, 02. 05 2007. у 22:38 +0200, Niko Demmel пише:
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>> On the wiki you propose a general purpose shared pointer. What about
>> boost::shared_ptr?
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> I assume you mean that the library could use it.
>   

Yes.

> That's one possibility. In that case, the library would either
> need to depend on boost completely, or pick all the dependancy
> files necessary for shared_ptr and carry them along.
>
> Boost as a dependency may sound ok, because this is a C++ library
> after all and Boost is not just another library. However [*], I
> don't see another need for Boost besides this ATM. We must also
> take into account that GNOME application developers will want to
> use this library, and may wish to propose the app as a GNOME
> module one day. While we can hope that this lib may be acknowledged
> as as an ok dependency, it will quite certainly not be the case
> with Boost. On top of my head, I can say that Glom, Regexxer and
> Nemiver have their own shared pointer implementation.
>
> OTOH we can say that we require gcc 4.x+ which ships the version
> of libstdc++ which includes tr1::shared_ptr. Not sure how good
> would such a decision be for a library.
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I guess it depends on whether you will ship your first release before
C++0x is ready ;-) .

I guess not everyone likes (to depend on) boost, so it seems fair enough
to have yet another shared pointer...

Regards
Niko Demmel