[QPID-5807] Rework the qpid options code so that Boost::program_options is entirely contained in qpidcommon library

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.28
• Fix Version/s: 0.29
• Component/s: C++ Broker, C++ Client, C++ Clustering
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 09/Jun/14 13:51
• Updated: 26/Sep/14 15:43
• Resolved: 01/Jul/14 19:18

Description

Currently lots of things in the qpid code base have to link against the boost program options library. This is not because they use it, but because they transitively include it's header files via the qpid::Options class.

It would be a distinct improvement (and a move towards removing boost::program_options entirely) to make the Options interface entirely independent of boos program options.