[Boost-users] [program_options]

Subject: [Boost-users] [program_options]
From: Vitaly Grechko (vitaly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-03 05:32:18

Could _WIN32 be removed from program_options\parsers.hpp? There is no way in
UNIX to parse command line independently from string. To use the library I
had to dublicate parsers.hpp and winmain.cpp files localy with _WIN32
removed, which is ugly. Before this I tryed to define _WIN32 before
including parsers.hpp and undef after - this affected other boost headers
and did not compile.
I don't see the reason to have _WIN32 macro there because the code is just
an algorithm and complied successfuly in all platforms. The meaning of the
algorithm is in the name of the function 'split_winmain(...)'.
The use case example: command lines from Windows client machines go to Unix
server for validation and logging. In this case split_winmain is regularly
used on UNIX

Vitaly