RE: Eyeballs needed on new reference counted pointer template

Warren Young wrote:
> And yes, I am aware that this wheel has already been invented. It's
in
> Boost, for instance, but the last time I brought up the possibility of

> making Boost a dependency of MySQL++, it was shot down so violently
that
> the detritus from the explosion settled in a thin even layer of
powdery
> ash over six counties.

I'd like to see use of Boost. The main argument against it was with people struggling to build it before using mysql++, but the smart pointer library is headers only - you don't have to build it, just set the include path. Ditto with boost::optional<T> which could provide "field can be NULL or a value" functionality in the same way as mysqlpp::Null<T>. I can't speak for whether it's a simple replacement but it's certainly the same concept.

Joel

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