[Insight-developers] Adding std::tr1 to ITK?

[Brad King]

On 11/10/2010 09:40 AM, Tom Vercauteren wrote:
> I would love to see something like that happen, and I think that
> relying on boost TR1 implementation is the way to go. Indeed according
> to the documentation, boost TR1 can be used transparently. For the
> user (once things are correctly configured), there is absolutely no
> difference in whether we use boost's TR1 or the compiler's TR:
>   http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/doc/html/boost_tr1/usage.html#boost_tr1.usage.writing_code
> One example, we will not use the boost namespace but the std::tr1 one.
> 
> I admit that it will require some work to make the setup seamless but
> it should be doable and using the bcp tool might help:
>   http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_44_0/tools/bcp/doc/html/index.html

Copying Boost headers into ITK will cause future problems for those
that try to build applications involving both ITK and Boost.  One
goal of the ITK Modularization effort is to be able to depend on
Boost as a 3rd-party library *without* copying it into ITK/Utilities.
That will allow applications to use both libraries cleanly.

-Brad K