RE: [Spirit-general] Re: [boost] spirt not supported on msvc 7

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmutkaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-18 01:14:16

Robert Ramey wrote

> One more thing:
> 
> perhaps spirit config.hpp might define a macro
> 
> #define SPIRIT_VERSION 16 or 18
> 
> This might be helpful.  If someone makes component that 
> depends on one version and attempt to use another one could 
> be trapped.

This is already the case from the early beginning of Spirit:

V1.6.2
#define SPIRIT_VERSION 0x1602

V1.8.0
#define SPIRIT_VERSION 0x1800

(defined in boost/spirit/version.hpp)

> Now that I think about it, that might be a worthy idea for 
> other large and complex libraries such as mpl and perhaps others.

I agree completely. This is very important to from the very beginning of a
library to make later interface breaking changes easier to track.

Regards Hartmut