Re: [boost] Attention Boosters

From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-14 01:54:28

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Ah, seems like a very bad idea to me. I think writing code that is so 
> platform dependent and is commonly known to be available as the separate 
> utility "more" will create more problems than it would solve.

I completely agree.

> A better idea is to add that functionality to the configure script 
> itself. Just have it figure out a paging program to use to send such 
> output to.

Does it really a problem that more is unavailable? In other words, why
introduce more complexity when it's enough to instruct people to use
more or their favorite pager?

> Personally I wouldn't add such a thing at all. I would think you would 
> be hard pressed to find Unix users who don't know how to use "more", or 
> use a terminal/shell window with a scroll bar.

I wouldn't do either but I can easily imagine new generation C++
developer who just installed Fedora/Ubuntu/etc, opened KDevelop or other
IDE and would like to play with boost but has no idea yet how to use
bash. Boost's getting started guide would be a first bash guide for them
;-)

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