Re: Eyeballs needed on new reference counted pointer template

Joel Fielder wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure that completely solves all the objections to Boost. The perception is that Boost is a massive beast, whether you have to deal with jam or not.

People being people, this objection would go away if Boost were just always there, installed everywhere by default. Look at IE, for example: the last time I actually went and downloaded the whole thing from Microsoft in a single big file (as opposed to the tiny network installer they push you toward) it was several dozen MB. I think if this was the only way to get IE, it'd be an insignificant minority browser on that account alone. This is not rational, it's just human nature.

We can avoid the "116 MB dependency" problem by cherry-picking Boost headers and putting them into MySQL++'s tree, but it has problems of its own. We discussed this a while back.

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