Re: [boost] program_options wchar_t support

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-14 12:00:56

Hi Volodya,

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:29:00PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
 
> > It could be templatized so that it can be based on any kind of
> > std::basic_string.
> 
> Alas, that would break ability to put all sources in a library -- thereby 
> increasing compile time for users who don't need wchar_t support.
>

AFAIR, there were several solutions for this problem. 

I don't see many other reasonable options besides char and wchar_t. 
So why don't just allow these specializations. Then you can put them into cpp files. 

std::string in STL is handled in very similar way.

Regards,

Pavol