Re: [boost] [date_time] Patch for ticket #1740: date_time includes <windows.h>

Subject: Re: [boost] [date_time] Patch for ticket #1740: date_time includes <windows.h>
From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-14 11:18:12

Emil Mieilica wrote:
> Hello,
> Done. Hope it will be useful to everybody who uses this great library.
> 
>> Can you attach this patch to the ticket so it doesn't get lost?

Just a technical comment on the suggested patch. Is it really wise / legal to 
replicate the Windows API declarations in Boost.  While it has the nice 
property of removing the windows.h dependency it seems to me that we might be 
on thin legal ice there.

Jeff