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[Philipp Moeller <>]

"Laurent Rineau (CGAL/GeometryFactory)" 
<>
writes:

> Le mardi 06 novembre 2012 10:48:43 Philipp Moeller a écrit :
>> Shriramana Sharma 
>> <>
>>  writes:
>> > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Shriramana Sharma 
>> > <>
>> >  
> wrote:
>> >> 4.
>> > 
>> > A 5th question I forgot:
>> > 
>> > If I am only be going to use the polygon boolops, do I need to link
>> > against the shared library or is it all header only? Is there any
>> > documenation on this?
>> 
>> Yes, you will need to link against it. At least assertions depend on
>> this. Would be nice to fix that one day and make most components header
>> only.
>
> The header-only feature could be activated by a macro. If we disable the 
> support for <CGAL/assertions_behaviour.h>, then the assertions could be 
> implemented by headers only.

Or we find a header-only way to enable assertion customization, but I'm
not sure this is possible.

If we add the macro, we also need to document which packages require
linking or make them link. It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a
list.

In any case I'm averse to adding options configuration options and would
prefer something simple, even if a one size fits all solution isn't as
extensible as what there is now. It's a debugging help and shouldn't
have so much impact.