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Bond is a cross-platform framework for working with schematized data. It supports cross-language de/serialization and powerful generic mechanisms for efficiently manipulating data. Bond is broadly used at Microsoft in high scale services.
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Is it possible to use Python bindings without Boost? #1203

Closed fralik closed 5 months ago

fralik commented 6 months ago

I am wondering if it is possible to use python bindings without Boost? Whether pybind11 or something else, which is more python-friendly, would work?

The problem I experienced with boost: I struggle to understand how to compile python binding for an arbitrary python version. Boost.python requires it's own python. I am using CMake + vcpkg, if I simply ask for Boost::python, then it either finds one version (let's say python 3.11) or it fails to find one (if I am building with python 3.9). The problem may be of course not related to bond, but rather to the tooling I use.

chwarr commented 5 months ago

No, Boost.Python is required. Microsoft has no plans to change this, and we don't want to take the project in a different direction here.