[bt-devel] new dependency: boost

[Martin Gruner]

Dear friends,

I just removed our own scoped_resource implementation from SVN. In order to 
professionalize our code I decided to add a new (header-only) dependancy: the 
famous boost library (http://boost.org). It contains a scoped_ptr 
implementation which is probably better than ours. And MUCH more than that. 
See for example the documentation on smart_ptr for how you can do a very 
simple low-overhead garbage-collection in C++. With Boost and QT we ain't 
gonna need Java no more. =)

For those who don't know boost yet: It is a collection of well-designed, 
peer-reviewed, portable and thoroughly tested headers which extend the power 
of C++. Many of them are expected to be included in the next C++ standard 
(C++0x). They make heavy use of template-based programming and therefore 
(most of them) do not require a separate library to be installed and linked 
against (= header-only).

You need to install libboost-dev to be able to compile BibleTime from now on.

Developers are welcome to use other parts of (header-only, for now) boost than 
scoped_ptr, which is currently used, if it is appropriate.

God bless,

mg