A C++ question: when to use "friend class"/"friend template"

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-9-10 04:14 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Does this patch seem reasonable to you?
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/hugin/hugin/ci/752123441af3ca9d1977081b59f480b9a161247f/
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bug/1213586
> 
> (I don't have sufficient experience with C++ (compilers) to be able to
> judge. They asked for testing.)

I haven't looked at their code in detail, so I can't comment on whether
this is the most appropriate way to do whatever they're trying to do.
Hopefully upstream know what they're doing, so "if it compiles, ship it"
I guess? :-)

- Josh