portable hash_map

From: Neal Fachan (neal_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-02 15:56:45

Hello.

We noticed you don't include a hash_map template in the 
Boost libraries. We assume this is because every STL 
implementation we can find includes their own hash_map.

Unfortunately, none of these hash_map implementations are
compatible.

We have portable software which uses the native vendor STL
on all platforms, so this makes using vendors' hash_maps
troublesome.

What would you advise us to do? We are leaning towards
taking SGI STL (STLPort)'s hash_map, but putting it into
it's own quarantined namespace.

Yuck!

Help!

Thanks.