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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/6/2018 1:59 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> Am Mo., 6. Aug. 2018 um 10:29 Uhr schrieb Wayne Stambaugh
> <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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
> 
> 
> Hi Wayne-
> 
> Header only, for our purposes.
> 
> -Seth

We already have a dependency on the boost header libraries so this
decision got a lot easier.  I'm fine with using the boost rtree.

Wayne