Re: Boost.Graph: user survey

Jeremy Murphy via Boost-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.user
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On Fri, 15 July 2022, 1:24 am Boris Kolpackov, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Jeremy Murphy via Boost-users <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >    - What are the biggest problems with using Boost.Graph?
>
> While I don't use Boost.Graph myself, I've observed on several occasions
> the "surprise" (to put it politely) that build2 users express at the fact
> that Boost.Graph depends on Boost.Regex (which in turn pulls in heavy-
> weight stuff like ICU). While there might be valid reasons why a graph
> library would require regex, you may wan to consider at least making
> this dependency optional.
>

Ahh, interesting, thank you!
I wasn't aware of that dependency; it's definitely one of the problem areas
that feedback on Reddit has mentioned.
Cheers.
Jeremy

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