Re: [Boost-users] [program_options]

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [program_options]
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-03 09:15:58

Vitaly Grechko wrote:

> 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

What 'validation and logging' can be possibly done on Linux, given Windows command
line? Why do you need to actually tokenize it?

- Volodya