From: Warren Young
Date: February 12 2008 2:56am
Subject: Re: RFC: What to do about the integer type mess?
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Warren Young wrote:
> 
> Would the attached patch be a problem?

And the answer is, "yes".

Turns out, Microsoft *still* doesn't ship stdint.h.  Not even with 
Visual C++ 2008.  Typical...  I guess this affects MinGW as well?

I found a few third-party implementations, but they're all licensed as 
BSD-with-attribution, which is incompatible with LGPL.  Even if it 
weren't, I couldn't presume to make a decision like that which would 
force others to modify their documentation on MySQL++'s behalf.

So, I'm going to reinvent this wheel by using stdint.h by default, and 
falling back to the old way when common.h detects a system it knows 
doesn't have it.  It's essentially the same situation we have now with 
NO_LONG_LONGS.