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From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-07 13:32:41


>>God, I hope not. The only reason this component exists is because some
>>people here on the list, who were familiar with original testing library
>>wanted something for backward compatibility. In fact for the new users I
>>don't see almost any reasons to use it at all. Boost.Test provides better
>>alternatives.
>
> Quoting from the introduction to the documentation section for the
> Minimal Testing facility:
>
> Minimal testing facility does not require linking with external
> components,
> so could be a component of choice for simple and quick testing needs.
>
> Perhaps something more akin to your message above should be in this
> introduction. Note that one of my co-workers also went down this

Ok. I will add some discouraging message.

Gennadiy


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