Re: [boost] Re: VC7 and wchar_t in Boost

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-23 20:43:46

At 06:46 AM 10/22/02, John Maddock wrote:
 >
 >> Is the official Boost position on this, if there is one, to build such
 >> libraries without the /Zc:wchar_t switch and tell the end user that he
 >must
 >> do the same if he wants to use the Boost library ?
 >
 >There is no official position, but it seems to reasonable to me, that 
boost
 >libraries should be built using the toolsets default options, and if the
 >user want something different then they should have to rebuild their
 >libraries.  Basically there is a limit to how many library variants we 
want
 >built by default (and how many user will tolerate) - there are already 6
 >for VC6/7, IMO that's enough.

The default options might be preferred where an option is truly optional.

But for options which increase standards conformance, I think we should 
turn the option on. Particularly if Boost libraries fail without the 
option. That isn't an option in my mind, its a requirement:-)

--Beman