Based on boost

[leonpierre]

You forgot to mention that this library based on boost and boost is not lightweight! Correct me if I'm wrong!?

thx

[Answeror]

Actually, all of my C++ projects depends on boost.

As far as I know, boost is the best documented C++ library and easy to
build. Mlog depends on boost system and filesystem, you can build these two
libs within 2 minutes. And the header only boost is lightweight,
I think.

By the way, boost 1.54.0 provide a logging library officially :)

I agree the dependencies should be mentioned in README.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:29 PM, leonpierre notifications@github.comwrote:

You forgot to mention that this library based on boost and boost is not
lightweight! Correct me if I'm wrong!?

thx

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[ghost]

It's also worth mentioning that there is a library based on boost::filesystem in the workds for C++14/17 (which can already be found in Microsoft's WinRT), and I believe that as of C++11, boost::system maps to std::errc. So it seems possible in the future that these library dependencies will only be needed for backwards compatibility.

I for one will say that I prefer mlog over boost::log because it is much, much lighter (and we already use boost as well).

[zschoche]

In my opinion, boost is always part of the game in modern c++. Anyway, the dependence exists and I see no way to remove it in a smart way at the moment. I will add comments in the README.md.

By the way: boost::log is very very slow. That was one of my reasons to start this library. I'll try to find time for a blog post about that.