Re: [gtkmm] 2.2.0 soon and 2.4 plans

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 22:35, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Thursday 02 January 2003 2:00 pm, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > If libsigc++ 2.0 is ready and suitable then we will use it. libsigc++
> > seems to be becoming more like the boost signals stuff, but boost is
> > just a testing library that can not be a dependency, so we couldn't use
> > its stuff until it becomes part of the real C++ standard library.
> [snip]
> 
> Lots of people use boost, particularly the smart pointers.
> 
> If it is useful, package it (most boost stuff is in a BSD-type licence).  I am 
> not suggesting you should, but saying it couldn't be used until it is in the 
> standard is very limp.

boost is not a stable dependency, and forking it would be extreme and
impractical.

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