Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Build - #include <> vs. ""

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-15 19:58:51

At 06:29 PM 7/13/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Jens Maurer" <Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden]>
 >
 >> As a personal preference, I like the look and feel of <...>
 >> denoting "system" headers, e.g. standard headers, POSIX
 >> headers, or third party libraries such as boost usually installed
 >> in a central location on the machine.  Opposed to this are
 >> "..." headers local to the current project.
 >
 >FWIW, that "feels right" to me also.

Me too.  But I haven't been closely following this thread, and so may be 
grasping for a too simple solution.  Particularly one that means we don't 
have to change a bunch of otherwise stable boost code.

If the consensus is that we should continue with <...> for the reasons 
given above, I'd like to make sure that rationale gets added to the 
documentation.

--Beman