Re: [boost] New getting started guide

From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-28 13:16:11

James Dennett skrev:
> (Unfortunately the platform on which I currently do most of my
> work -- Solaris, using Sun's compiler and standard library --
> doesn't support much of Boost.  Sun's support for boost seems
> to be dependent on us being able to use a binary-incompatible
> standard library implementation, which is not viable when needing
> to link with third-party proprietary libraries.)
>   

Maybe Sun need to switch to use stlport as their default standard 
library for the next compiler release.  This would signal which library 
is considered more compliant and most relevant for library vendors.  
Special flags should be for backward compliance, not the other way around.

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Bjørn