Re: [boost] the <boost/detail/iomanip.hpp> header (please use it)

Subject: Re: [boost] the <boost/detail/iomanip.hpp> header (please use it)
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-14 15:39:45

AMDG

On 1/14/2011 9:10 AM, Bryce Lelbach wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:08:27 +0200
> "Peter Dimov"<pdimov_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> Is this something that we really need to address? This problem has much
>> wider scope than just Boost, and is of a temporary nature.
> *shrugs*. Judgement call, really. There's two types of bugs in Boost - bugs
> that we can fix without massive upheaveal/breaking other stuff, and bugs that
> we can't. This falls into the category of easy and trivial to fix on our end, so
> I did.

Just because it's easy, doesn't mean it's the right
thing to do.  Your patch makes the code uglier,
although not by much.

You should also be more careful that you actually
commit exactly what you intend to commit, especially
with such widespread changes.  In addition to the
Jamfile changes which you noticed and reverted,
you committed some workarounds for pathscale.
I would not have approved those particular changes
if they were for my library, simply because I really,
*really* dislike scattering #ifdefs around.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe