[boost] Re: program options documentation

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-18 07:31:35

Hi Rutger,

> I noticed that the documentation of the Boost.Program_options library has
> a small inconsistency regarding the add_options method.
> 
> In the tutorial section and in the Options Descriptions Component
> subsection of the Library Overview, add_options is documented in a form
> that is probably meant as the correct one:
> 
> desc.add_options()
>     ("compression", po::value<int>(), "set compression level");
> 
> while on the other hand, under Library Overview/Options Description
> Component/Syntactic information it is written as
> 
> desc.add_options()
>     ("compression", "compression level", value<string>());
> 
> , i.e., the 2nd and 3rd arguments are exemplified in a different (likely
> wrong) order.

Hi,
this was indeed a problem with 1.32 release.

I believe it's now fix, please see
http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cs-win32_metacomm/doc/html/program_options/overview.html

Thanks,
Volodya