Re: [Boost-users] Re: Re: Q: W4003 with vc7 boost=1.32 in date_time lib

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-30 01:59:45

At Monday 2004-11-29 22:59, you wrote:
>Hello Victor,
>
>
>VW> why not? all C++ users are supposed to know that they have to
>VW> #define  NOMINMAX if they're going to use windows?  and if my
>VW> defining it beforehand  doesn't break anything, then neither would
>VW> their doing it automatically.
>VW>
>
>There are dozens of libraries that doesn't concern to boost. I see no 
>reasons for boost to explicitly support neither windows nor other external 
>libraries that violates rules for standard integrity. It's my IMHO.
>
>NOMINMAX is a windows stuff, so just use it in you project, that's all.

I wasn't suggesting that boost do anything...but Dave gets upset when I dis 
Microsoft for being lazy or foolish, or just plain stupid.

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>Vyacheslav E. Andrejev
>System Architect, Excelsior, LLC
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