id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
4142	Option names should be constructible from strings	afoglia@…	Vladimir Prus	"The constructor and set_name methods of option_description take only const char pointers and not strings.  (Likewise for the option_description_easy_init operator().)

Currently code such as the below fails to compile

{{{
std::string help=""help"";
po::options_description desc(""Allowed options"");
desc.add_options()
    (HELP, ""produce help message"");
}}}

We use strings for easy reuse them when checking the variable map of parsed options.

This came up on the dev list last month, and Vladimir said he'd look into why overloads for strings didn't already exist.([http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/03/162646.php])  I assume you haven't had time, so here's a more persistent reminder.
"	Feature Requests	new	Boost 1.43.0	program_options	Boost 1.42.0	Cosmetic