RE: [boost] Re: Pure Abstraction Layer

From: Anthony Williams (anthwil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-08 10:58:39

From: Braden McDaniel [mailto:braden_at_[hidden]]
Sent: 07 August 2002 19:58
> I've already heard a few good arguments here, but let me try 
> to add to the
> list: the scenario you describe strikes me as pretty contrived. Why
> *wouldn't* a Win32 developer have the Win32 SDK? Or a POSIX developer
> pthreads?

The theoretical win32 developer might be using something like the mingw port
of gcc, which doesn't work with the win32 SDK --- only the headers and
libraries explicitly ported can be used.

Anthony