Designing command-line interfaces

Re:Designing command-line interfaces by llimllib on Friday August 05, 2011 @11:59PM (#2852945)

When I have to compile your program which uses that oh-so-useful Boost library, I curse you to the skies.

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Re:Designing command-line interfaces by epochwolf on Saturday August 06, 2011 @04:33AM (#2853416)

I haven't used C++ since college so I don't understand why this would be an issue.

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Re:Designing command-line interfaces by copper on Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:23AM (#2853687)

If you don't have an easy way of installing boost, it becomes complicated - just to compile one program.

That said, boost is a dependency that pays off in terms of programmer time if what you're doing is complicated enough (in other words, if you think you might reimplement some part of boost, you're better off using it as a dependency instead.)

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Re:Designing command-line interfaces by scott_s on Saturday August 06, 2011 @08:45AM (#2853716)

Boost is installed standard with most Linux distributions now.

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