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aewallin / opencamlib

open source computer aided manufacturing algorithms library
http://www.anderswallin.net/CAM
GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
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Removing boost? #140

Closed joemarshall closed 1 year ago

joemarshall commented 1 year ago

The build process for this is a real pain if you're anywhere without preinstalled boost everything, because you have to install and compile boost, which is insanely massive and slows everything down build-wise.

Boost is mainly used here for foreach loops, which could be turned into C++11 foreach loops, boost graph library, but in a way that could surely be replaced by pretty straightforward structures, and boost.python, which could be pretty easily replaced with pybind11, which is tiny, and doesn't depend on massive libraries.

vespakoen commented 1 year ago

I like the suggestion but I am not sure if anyone is willing to invest the time in doing so. If you feel like you can do it, go for it, it sure would make things a lot easier.

vespakoen commented 1 year ago

Removing Boost would be nice, but it is a huge task. I will not be doing it anyways. OpenCAMLib also uses the Boost graph library, which is probably also pretty hard to replace with something else.

I also made this "precompiled boost python" project over here: https://github.com/vespakoen/boost-python-precompiled where you can get a pre-compiled version for your platform / architecture and python version, it hopefully makes things a bit easier.

I'll close this issue for now, but don't let it stop you from trying anyways ;)