From: "Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 12:53 PM 8/6/2003, Russell Hind wrote: > > >Beman Dawes wrote: > >> > >> I don't think people were against the idea of solving the problem, but > >> rather there is a need for a unified prefix/suffix header solution such > > >> as John is suggesting. Developers need a "canned" solution; they can't > >> be asked to code #ifdefs and pragmas for compilers they know nothing > >about. > >> > > > >I thought people were against it for reasons of setting up test cases > >and such, not because of the implementation. > > Well, some of us are trying to get out of doing additional work:-)
Not really. Prefix/suffix headers certainly work well for self-contained libraries (i.e. regex). The problem is that we have both inline and out-of-line libraries that depend on each other, and some of our users ( e.g. me :-) ) only need the first category. To make out-of-line libraries "plug and play" we may have to prefix/suffix all* inline libraries as well, making their users pay for something they do not need. * Under the assumption that they are potential future dependencies. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
