[Monotone-devel] Re: Ticker change?

[Graydon Hoare]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:17:50PM -0500, Timothy Brownawell wrote:
> > Why do we need to hide boost::format? Should we just use "extern
> > template" for our % and make having an instantiation of that be another
> > requirement for types we want to format, along with having an
> > operator<< ?
>
> I'd just like to point out that 0.27 is currently blocking on this
> bug, plus the win32 test failure, so if the test failure gets fixed we
> should also consider simply backing out this change temporarily...

I think the formatter thing is fixed now, sorry.

I didn't want to go the route of explicit boost::format template 
instantiations because I was also trying to strip out boost includes 
(boost/format.hpp pulls in 186 boost headers). So I just did some 
explicit specializations of the inline operator% for number types. Seems 
to work. Let me know if you see any further failures in it (or, if you 
get tired of chasing the problem, revert; it's inessential)

-graydon