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Subject: Re: [boost] spirit classic modularization
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-21 18:57:09


On 5/22/2012 5:20 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> While I was in Aspen I split Spirit and Spirit Classic into separate
>> Git repositories:
>>
>> https://github.com/boost-lib/spirit
>> https://github.com/boost-lib/spirit_classic
>
> I prefer the above even though it would require that I make changes to
> serialization library
> to explicitly select spirit_classic. Right now the selection occurs
> under the covers in a way which is not obvious to me. It does
> work which is good. But still it hides what's going on which
> usually comes back to haunt me.

If it will haunt you, it would've haunted you now, and it would have
haunted many others, for that matter, after many years that it has
been in place. It is obvious, if you spare a moment to understand.
In short: forwarding headers.

Regards,

-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boostpro.com
http://boost-spirit.com

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