Re: Random source questions

2001-02-14 Thread Allan Rae
On 14 Feb 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lars> There is only one reason why we have not ditched it already: too > Lars> few c++ libraries have a really good std::string and ours is > Lars> actually better. > > Indeed. And th

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> There is only one reason why we have not ditched it already: too Lars> few c++ libraries have a really good std::string and ours is Lars> actually better. Indeed. And that's quite a good reason. JMarc

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | Lars> lyxstring is dead, it just has not quite realised yet. | | Why? it is not standard conformant. one piece of code that we should not have to maintain we should use std::s

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> lyxstring is dead, it just has not quite realised yet. Why? JMarc

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 13 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > But we really don't want to support STLport with our lyxstring we want | > to use theirs... | | Maybe you do but I for one like my binaries small. A factor of 10 | increase in binary size unstripped or 5 s

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-14 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 14-Feb-2001 Allan Rae wrote: > > Maybe you do but I for one like my binaries small. A factor of 10 > increase in binary size unstripped or 5 stripped (as I've explained the > last three times we've had this arguement about stl_string_fwd.h) is not > something I want to put up with and I doub

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-13 Thread Allan Rae
On 13 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > But we really don't want to support STLport with our lyxstring we want > to use theirs... Maybe you do but I for one like my binaries small. A factor of 10 increase in binary size unstripped or 5 stripped (as I've explained the last three times we've

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-13 Thread Lior Silberman
On 13 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Lior Silberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > |=20 > | > On 12 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bj=F8nnes wrote: > | >=20 > | > > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > [...] > | > > | 3) stl_string_fwd.h is old

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Lior Silberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Allan Rae wrote: | | > On 12 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > [...] | > > | 3) stl_string_fwd.h is old and can be deleted ? | > > | > > IMHO yes. The use of this non-stand

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-12 Thread Lior Silberman
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Allan Rae wrote: > On 12 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > > | 3) stl_string_fwd.h is old and can be deleted ? > > > > IMHO yes. The use of this non-standard header is a trick to reduce > > compile times. > > This

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-12 Thread Allan Rae
On 12 Feb 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > | 3) stl_string_fwd.h is old and can be deleted ? > > IMHO yes. The use of this non-standard header is a trick to reduce > compile times. This is used to allow use with STLport and SGI's STL. Without it

Re: Random source questions

2001-02-12 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | is {nt,vms}_defines.h really needed ? Or how about a sysdeps directory | containing : | | nt_defines.h | os2_defines.h | os2_errortable.h | vms_defines.h< -- surely not used ??? | broken_headers.h | | or perhaps just in support/ ? | | Can someon

Random source questions

2001-02-12 Thread John Levon
is {nt,vms}_defines.h really needed ? Or how about a sysdeps directory containing : nt_defines.h os2_defines.h os2_errortable.h vms_defines.h< -- surely not used ??? broken_headers.h or perhaps just in support/ ? Can someone explain the string header schemes ? Currently we have the fol