[jira] [Commented] (THRIFT-4441) C++: support building lib without Boost

["James E. King III (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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James E. King III commented on THRIFT-4441:
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If we allow the option to either build with or without boost, we create a build-time and packaging-time branch whereby packagers have to distribute two libraries - one that builds against boost and supports C++03, and one that does not build against boost and only supports C++11 or later.  Given older versions of thrift support both boost and C++03, we should consider dropping support for boost and C++03 at the same time.  Then the packaging dependencies are simplified, but more importantly there is only one C++ runtime library to be built (apart from the normal debug/release variants).  Folks who need the boost interface, or need C++03 support can always use Thrift 0.12.0 or earlier.

> C++: support building lib without Boost
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: THRIFT-4441
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4441
>             Project: Thrift
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C++ - Compiler, C++ - Library
>    Affects Versions: 0.11.0, 0.12.0
>            Reporter: Francois Ferrand
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: boost, c++11
>
> It would be great to support compiling Thrift library without boost: in C++11, most of the things are already integrated, and it is often not practical to integrate boost, esp. in embedded projects.
> Some steps have already been done (esp. THRIFT-2221) to support building user code without boost, but it would be nice to allow building completely without boost.



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