[geos-devel] Portability

[Norman Vine]

Yury A. Bychkov writes:
>
> > Yury, do you think the STLPort idea might be a better way of handling
this?
> I am not sure yet. If there are not a lot of such problems (and based on
Paul's
> message (and on my impression that I probably already used all needed STL
> functions at least once) we can hope that it is so), it would probably be
better
> to avoid external libraries. Otherwise we can always switch to STLPort

FYI  - I was only reccomending that STLPort be required for MSVC6

It appears as if the STL included in MSVC7 and libstdc++ < gcc > are
compatablle.  < eg they are both reasonably 'standards compliant' >

My concern here is that we don't code for the 'broken' STL that MS
shipped with MSVC6

Cheers

Norman