On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Tim Dwyer wrote:
I'd appreciate any feedback people have on this idea. Also, I'd really like to use the boost 'graph' libraries to get this happening quickly. Boost already has some basic layout algorithms which we can use right away, but I'll also need the underlying graph data-structures and algorithms in boost to implement new algorithms. What are the logistics of adding boost to the inkscape dependency tree?
While I haven't actually used boost before, I was just looking at the webpage for the Boost Graph Library (http://www.boost.org/libs/graph/doc/) which says "[it] is a header-only library and does not need to be built to be used."
From what I can see, the examples only require the graph library and don't
seem to depend on the main Boost library. So it may be that this library wouldn't have to be a "new dependency". If the licence is compatible we could just add it to the source tree.
Michael