Re: [glob2-devel] Nicowar desync

[Nuage]

> One of Boosts major concerns is about portability, so they work fine
> on MacOSX, and from what I hear, osx has a binary of boost with it as
> well, so it should provide no problem. I'm mainly targetting nct, who
> tries to keep an eye on dependancies. As well, a full fixed width
> integer class is not simple, especially when it comes to devision and
> multiplication, where as multipling to decimals shrinks the result,
> and deviding by a decimal increases the result, quite the opposite of
> what the default integers do, which is why I so desperately want to be
> allowed to use Boost, which provides a full rational number library
> that would solve my problems. There are also a variety of otheer boost
> libraries which would come in very handy, and adding a dependancy for
> a single Boost library is dumb as boost generally comes (on all posix
> systems and their windows binaries) as one big collection rather than
> individual libraries.

Could you check if boost.rational use any floating point operations ? We need to
know this before we could use it, thx.