[Bro-Dev] adding boost as a dependency

[Robin Sommer]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 16:02 -0400, you wrote:

> How do people feel about adding Boost as a dependency?

Not good. :-)

>  I'd like to make some of boost::math's statistical functions
>  available to the scripting language.

In the future we'll have support for dynamically loaded plugins. You
could then write one that links with Boost for providing that
functionality, without that we'd need to link Bro itself against it.

Robin

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