[boost] Re: Re: Re: Formal Review: Command Line & Config library

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-28 02:28:27

Hi Pavol,

Pavol Droba wrote:

> I have been reading the discussiong here about adding the support for
> unicode.
> 
> Maybe there is a solution which would allow to have templated versions of
> relevant classes AND static library in one box.
> 
> 
> If we decide that specialization for char and wchar_t is sufficient, the
> headers can contain generic template based declarations, but the
> implementation will be given only for particular cases ( char and wchar_t
> ) and so it can be included in the static lib.

Oh.. that's yet another approach. I *really* feel Boost-wide solution is
needed.

> Similar idea is used in stl for streams, strings and locales.

I though that's different. I need to check out again, but IIRC, RW STL
shipped with borland's free compiler had all string definitions in headers.

> With a help from preprocessor, it should be easy to define two variants
> in one place.
> Also that could a possibility, that the .cpp file will be included as
> headers all this can be done using macros.

Yep. Another viable option.

- Volodya