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C++ library for storing and printing backtraces.
https://boost.org/libs/stacktrace
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Standalone support? #128

Open NAThompson opened 1 year ago

NAThompson commented 1 year ago

How much effort would it be to support this library in standalone mode?

From a cursory glance, it appears that boost/config is used only to detect existence of #pragma once, but that seems easy enough to remove.

Essentially, we would like to use just this as a git submodule.

ceztko commented 1 year ago

Note to the author of stacktrace: pointing to other base library advancements that got standardized and offered a standalone version from the beginning, like date from Howard Hinnant or fmtlib from Victor Zverovich shall not be an excuse for me or other people for not helping you in creating a standalone version of stacktrace, but quite frankly I want to say that having stuff standardized is one mean to reduce the dependency on big general purpose libraries such as boost, so I believe developing this with boost dependency from scratch was a conceptual mistake and it's just delaying the adoption of such helpful facility. I'm sure that many people coming here would love to use stacktrace today but will not because that would require importing boost for just a single feature.

nigels-com commented 11 months ago

Coud well be that a majority here are already widely boost-entangled. So it isn't high on our priority list, but by the sound of it, would not be a complicated patch.