Re: [Boost-build] Python port development

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Python port development
From: Brian Ravnsgaard Riis (brian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-14 16:01:08

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On 14-07-2010 21:09, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 July 2010 22:18:40 Gevorg Voskanyan wrote:
>> Couldn't resist replying... Type safe macros? That would be news to me :-)
> 
> They exist. In particular, gcc codebase has typesafe vectors implemented in C.
> But that's pretty complex code, and gcc will eventually use C++ vectors, anyway...

wx is also slowly moving towards supporting templates in the codebase.
The culprit was always the decision to support broken compilers, VC++6
in particular. This is slowly fading, though the old API is still
standard and a define (configure option) is needed to enable the new
API. In particular the 2.9.x series support typesafe templated events
instead of the old macro-based event tables.

All this diversity also makes configuring the wx codebase a daunting
task, another reason I'll be glad to see the python port of BB launch.

 /Brian

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