Re: [Monotone-devel] PCRE landed

[Daniel Carosone]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:06:28AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Since Richard is in favor and Nathaniel hasn't said anything, I went
> ahead and landed the PCRE branch.

Yay!

> My impression is that, while external Boost libraries are now not
> needed, to get the header-only libraries that we still use, people
> building from source will still have to go through the trouble of
> building the whole of Boost.  

Depends how their packaging is set up: for comparison and an estimation
of the number of files involved:

address@hidden [17:08][347]/usr/pkgsrc/devel> wc -l boost-*/PLIST*
     510 boost-build/PLIST
    4480 boost-docs/PLIST
    3573 boost-headers/PLIST
       2 boost-jam/PLIST
      32 boost-libs/PLIST
       4 boost-python/PLIST
    8601 total

So, I'm assuming we should now be able to get away with a dep on just
boost-headers, which will save a chunk of space and time.  Thankyou.

--
Dan.

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