[geos-devel] Portability

[Martin Davis]

Now more than ever I'm happy that we developed GEOS (JTS) originally in Java....

Using a namespace of "geos" sounds like a good idea to me.

So if we removing "using namespace std", what do we do instead?  Prefix all the STL classes with "std:"?  Or do we even need it?

[ Sigh...  my C++ expertise is obviously getting woefully out of date.  (But you know what - I'm not sure how much I care, now that the world has two simpler solutions which appear to have no loss in expressive power). ]

As for the other compatibility problems, is using STLPort the best solution for MSVC developers to ensure compatibility?  Or would it better to cross compile with gcc Ver 3.2 ?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ferdinando Villa [mailto:fvilla at zoo.uvm.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 5:49 AM
> To: GEOS developers
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Portability
> 
> 
> I strongly agree on the namespace issue (particularly so since we can
> use a nice namespace id such as 'geos'). I'd also like to see 
> the 'using
> namespace std' removed from the headers, not that it matters 
> much if the
> namespace is std, but it's very bad practice in general. 
> 
> Norman - if you need libtool-related mods that won't break the Unix
> build, please feel free to commit them.
> 
> ciao f
> 
> On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 08:58, Norman Vine wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Ferdinando's libtoolizing seems to work well for me, with
> > only minor modifications, on Cygwin and Mingw32, however
> > I haven't had much joy trying to get this to compile with either
> >  gcc version 2.95.3-10 (cygwin special)
> >    or the MUCH more  standard compliant but pickier
> >  gcc version 3.2 (mingw special 20020817-1)
> > 
> > If I can be so bold migh I suggest that the MSVC developers 'try' 
> > compiling this using the STL_PORT Library occasionally :-)
> > 
> > Another suggestion is that we use the C++ namespace feature.
> > I think that this would greatly enhance the usability of this code
> > esp. given the 'reasonably common' classnames that are being 
> > used
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Norman
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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