[2003-01-16] David Abrahams wrote: >Rene Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [2003-01-16] David Abrahams wrote: >> >>>Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>>> On Wednesday 15 January 2003 15:49, you wrote: >>>>> At 04:25 AM 1/15/2003, Steven Kirk wrote: >>>>> >windows. Judging by the naming convention used by the other current >> boost >>>>> >libraries, shouldn't this library be called "libboost_filesystem.lib"? >>>>> >>>>> Yes, I guess. I'll add it to the do list. >>>>> >>>> Isn't there a big flaw in that naming-convention ? It means I can't >> install a >>>> version compiled for different compilers due to their differing ABIs. >>>> Therefore, I'd rather go for >>>> libboost_<name>_<ABI-tag>-version.lib >>>> 'name' being 'filesystem' in this case and 'ABI-tag' an identifier for >> the >>>> compiler, possibly including the stdlib. (note: STLport already uses such >> a >>>> scheme, I'd prefer just stealing their ABI-tags if there are no good >> reasons >>>> to do otherwise). >>> >>>You're probably right. We don't have a system to do that right now, >>>but it's probably a pretty easy change. >> >> Not totally right... It should be: >> >> libboost_<name>_<API-tag>.lib.<version> >> >> Putting the version at the end is somewhat standard. And in my current case >> of OpenBSD required. >> >> I could easily do this in BBV1: >> >> lib<name>_<TOOLSET_NAME>.lib.<version> >> >> The "boost_<name>" part is up to the library authors. If no one has >> objections? > >I have no objections, but it's not bulletproof. For example, >different versions of gcc have different ABIs, but unless the user has >installed a custom toolset definition, they will have the same name. >And there's no way to control which versions users will call plain old >"gcc".
We'd at least be one step above STLport ;-) Which only uses "gcc" regarless of version of gcc, without a chance of changing it by the user. -- grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 102708583@icq _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
