Ivan Čukić

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Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development section, on 4 November 2013

I am coming close to adding boost.range as a dependency to non-library parts of KActivities.

Every time I have to filter out a list, join the elements in a non-standard manner.

So far, I am resisting the temptation, but I have no clue for how long I will be able to manage it :)

Benjamin Schindler
And you resist because...? I mean, of course dependencies have to be chosen carefully and should only be added if they add great value to the project. But then again - boost is well maintained, boost::range is header only (afaik), so where is the problem?
Ivan Čukić
@Benjamin
Yes, boost.range is header only. Resisting only because I always conclude 'it is only 10 lines of code more to write, if it happens again, then I'll require it'. :)
eliasp
You'll keep distribution packagers happy by not making use of boost.
Maintaining boost dependencies is the hell of package management.
Ivan Čukić
@eliasp
Well, every distribution packages boost anyhow (and a few of those are already a requirement of akonadi). Since this is a header-only library, it would not require any additional runtime dependencies - just compile-time presence would be required.