Poll: what add-on libraries do you use ?

[marcvanriet]

Hi,

@nroberts & high_flyer : there is a lot of overlapping functionality in boost and Qt (like the signal/slot mechanism and threading, to name 2 obvious ones). Do you use the Qt ones where available or not ? It seems that the things that boost has more than Qt are rather 'complicated stuff' like MPI and complex algorithms and mathematical functions. Not something that one would need for 'ordinary' desktop applications.

Regards,
Marc

[high_flyer]

Not something that one would need for 'ordinary' desktop applications.

As I said, in Qt apps I hardly need standard functionality from outside Qt.
Its more for non Qt apps.
And what is 'ordinary'?
Since at work we develop client specific applications (which in our case is usually quite complex applications that bind special hardware as well), many hardware handling libs do not use Qt for that functionality, rather usually only for GUI.
So for my work it is very 'ordinary' to use boost/stl for the non Qt/GUI parts.

[finetjul]

The Common Toolkit ( CTK ):
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