Bundled libs (revisited)

[Rex Dieter]

On 02/10/2012 10:31 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have found yet another bundled lib in my review request 2140
> (bombono). The lib is Adobe Source Libraries (ASL), a large,
> general-purpose addon to STL and boost. The situation:
> - bombono includes some files from ASL, clearly a bundling situation.
> - ASL depends on boost 1.44, two versions behind current 1.46.
> - The nature of ASL (large, general-purpose) probably means that they
> will always lag boost by one or more versions. At least, this is what
> the release history shows.
>
> So, packaging ASL means dependencies on an outdated boost version. To be
> frank, I have no idea how to handle this.
>
> Any ideas, out there?

leaving out the effort it would take to actually unbundle and package 
separately...

give the fact that it likely won't work with current versions of boost 
is at least one argument in favor of bundling... for now.  wouldn't hurt 
to poke upstream and investigate what their plans are, and to gauge how 
much effort would be required to port to newer boosts.

-- rex