Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] Optional C++ namespaces

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:45, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
> > Do we have evidence that anyone wants to use libxml++ with a compiler
> > that does not support C++ namespaces? If not then it doesn't seem worth
> > the bother.
> 
> I have at least one evidence :  
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=754877&forum_id=220525
>
> But I'm afraid it's an almost desperate case since he cannot event use the STL 
> with his compiler.

I think you shouldn't try to support him if he thinks it's a good idea
to implement his own STL just to use libxml++. That's a platform of 1
person.

> I also saw that sunpro cc 4.2 does not support namespaces, but it's right that 
> I don't even know if it's widely used or not ;-)

I don't think so.

I suggest that, instead of complicating things now, you let people patch
in optionality later if they require it. If they don't provide the patch
then they don't care - it's a principle that works.

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