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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

On 8/6/2018 1:11 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Am Mo., 6. Aug. 2018 um 09:57 Uhr schrieb Wayne Stambaugh
> <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Simon,
> 
>     On 8/6/2018 12:46 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > On 06.08.2018 18:35, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>     >
>     >> What are people's opinions on adding an additional boost
>     dependency?  
>     >
>     > I would never have thought to say these words out loud, but in
>     general I
>     > prefer not reinventing the wheel.
>     >
>     > Another Boost dependency is vastly preferable to having a block of
>     code
>     > that only one or two people know how to maintain.
>     >
>     >    Simon
> 
>     I tend to agree but Boost 1.67 which is the latest release and was only
>     release in April.  I doubt 1.67 is widely availability except all but
>     the latest distro releases so I'm sure there will be build issues if we
>     bump the minimum boost version to 1.67.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
> Our minimum version is 1.54 right now.  The RTree implementation has
> been stable
> (https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/geometry/doc/html/geometry/spatial_indexes/introduction.html)
> since then as long as we avoid things like R* and bulk loading, which
> shouldn't be an issue for our use case.
> 
> -S
>  

If this is the case, then I would think using boost would be the
preferred way to go.  Just for clarification, is the boost rtree
implementation a header only boost library or does it require an
additional boost compiled library?

Wayne