Re: BigDecimals / Gnu MP

Zsolt Simon <zsolt.simon-NAAfj4rwCWC8rjiVs5Nzzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> That was my point all the time ... why reinventing the wheel? :)

Because there are a lot of broken wheels out there, so you have to be
carefully selective.

Sometimes even if a particular wheel is fine today, later on the
maintenance disappears, the licence changes, feature-creeping erodes
reliability, etc.

I don't think we reinvented (m)any wheels in Carob; C++98 (a
"standard" wheel, which means a lot) provides most what we
needed. Could you name a few?

Hopefully the BSD sockets portability issue will be resolved with only
a couple of macros (like those from MinGW for instance on windows),
and we won't need an additional dependency.


I'm also glad libmysequoia has very few dependencies (and that they
explicitely listed here: <http://carob.continuent.org/LibMySequoia> )