8 Oct
2006
8 Oct
'06
9:47 p.m.
Robert Ramey wrote:
It was precisely the posting of a question regarding this which clarified the question in my own mind.
The existence of a standard in no way effects the "third party" status of any particular implmentation.
It does (from legal and support point of view) since there is a single supplier, the compiler vendor. If the vendor has been cleared for use (and you have to have a compiler cleared for a project), you get the standard library for free, but not Boost, you need a separate uphill battle for that. Or so I hear.