[LLVMdev] Forward: Discussion about custom memory allocators for STL

[Dominic Hamon]

Roman Levenstein wrote:
>  - possibility of using 3rd party libs like Boost (or their parts) in LLVM
>   
There is a thread elsewhere on this mailing list illustrating how 
important it is for the maintainers of LLVM to keep LLVM usable in a 
commercial environment. As such, I would strongly recommend avoiding 
Boost as it has a bad name in some quarters, regardless of its license, 
for including work that is not safe for commercial users to take on. Ie, 
there are so many contributors, and their contribution tracking has been 
poor in the past, that business affairs departments in commercial 
companies, and their associated patent lawyers, are unable to determine 
how much of Boost is truly the authors' own work, and how much is borrowed.

Given the delicate relationship between the commercial sector and open 
source, adding Boost usage to LLVM will harm the commercial sectors view 
of this product.

Dominic