Boost in LyX

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgouttes at lyx.org
Fri Nov 20 22:04:55 UTC 2020


Le 20/11/2020 à 18:33, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 04:14:57PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Le 20/11/2020 ?? 15:33, Yuriy Skalko a écrit :
>>> I assume that it is a template-heavy thing and it can significantly
>>> increase compilation time (also don't know about compatibility of boost
>>> ranges with ranges-v3 library that will be standard from C++20). Is it OK
>>> to use it? And more general question: what parts of Boost are OK for usage
>>> in LyX?
>>
>> Boost is indeed a template heavy thing. I do not know (yet) about ranges-v3,
>> but many things graduated from boost to the standard library.
> 
> I would say that it would be good if we could drop boost dependency altogether
> at some day (rather than introducing new dependencies, which are not really
> necessary like here...)

Well, now that it is in C++20, it looks much better, doesn't it ? %-]
I really think that range-based manipulation is much better than the 
iterator PITA.

JMarc


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