Re: [Boost-users] [program options] option_description name as string

"Anthony Foglia" wrote in message news:4BD075A4.101@princeton.com...

We tend to store the names of our options in strings (so we can reuse them later when getting the values out of the variable map). But option_descriptions can only be created from const char *, so we need to add a .c_str() when building the options_description.

Is there any reason why options can't be constructed with a string? Otherwise I'll open a feature request bug.

This did come up recently on the dev list. FWIW, here's the thread: http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/03/162646.php