[LyX/master] Reduce the amount of needed boost headers

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Thu Dec 10 19:06:50 UTC 2020


Le 10/12/2020 à 19:56, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
> On 12/10/20 1:33 PM, Yuriy Skalko wrote:
>>> The is not much to gain with is IMO, until we are ready to ditch 
>>> boost. Note that, with all it problems, boost is highly portable and 
>>> used by many people. So there is value in just using it and forget 
>>> about possible problems.
>>
>> Yes, that was my plan ;) Now, with C++11 features, Boost is not so 
>> indispensable. But really, getting rid of signals2 and lexical_cast 
>> will be enough.
> 
> Since we already use Qt signals and slots, is there an option of using 
> that in support/signals.h instead of boost? Or would that require moc, 
> etc, in too many places?

Yes, we would have to mocify stuff AFAIK. We do not need that IMO, but I 
get your point.

JMarc


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