Re: Problem following Zinf

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:33:01 -0700, Kristian G. Kvilekval 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:01, Ralf Engels wrote:
>> Boost. Wow. Does there someone try to implement a stdlib for c++? Sadly 
>> he doesn't care to implement configure.
>
> Unfortunate, but in their eyes necessary as it needs to portable
> across a wide range of platforms and compilers.
>
I agree boost is extreamly annoying to get installed if you don't have an 
rpm to use.

>
> Are you using a a distribution?   I find the zinf dependencies
> incredibly easy to deal with.   On debian it simply
>
> apt-get install libmetakit2.4.9-dev libboost-dev
>
Unfortunatly, my distribution, Mandrake, dosn't have packages for either of 
these for use with the last release (9.1). They do have a package in the 
cooker for boost, but for some reason it looks like it dosn't include 
boost-filesystem (at least it wasn't included in the package listing on the 
website). If this is the case, then most mandrake users are going to be 
forced to build boost by hand to use zinf, or use a package from another 
distribution that may or may not work on their system. I know zinf has 
always had quite a few dependincies, but if we're really going to have to 
ask end users to build boost by hand when their distribution dosn't have a 
package for it, are we not possibly going a bit too far on the use of 
external libraries?

One thought I did have is, could we possibly distribute the sections of 
code that we use from at least boost
with the source code for zinf, so users don't have to battle installing it? 
From the looks of things we don't use the vast majority of boost functions 
so I don't think it would be that much code.

David

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