Martin Slater wrote:
Please , please please no windows.h ;) Just spent an unhappy day or two again last week fighting against it. I would much prefer to link against something and anything that needed it was compiler firewalled in a cpp if possible.
I also agree that preferably all system headers should be banned from boost include files. This has been discussed back and forth mainly for threads and network. Is there a policy or guideline or is it from case to case. Would it be possible to handle in some other way so ther user can choose. From my point of view i think it's bad for several reasons; they are often bad citizens, compile time, knowing whats included so system apis aren't crept in code that should not use system apis. /Michel