Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?

Subject: Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-05 17:15:33

on Fri Oct 05 2012, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 04 October 2012 13:20:00 Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> 
>> The question remains: "how do I learn/teach this library?"  If I can't
>> answer those questions, I also can't answer the question
>> 
>>        How do I use this library?
>> 
>> I don't understand how other people have arrived at answers for
>> themselves.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Look, I teach classes on Boost.  If Boost.Test is not learnable and
>> teachable, I have to tell my students to stay away from it.  That's
>> embarrassing for me, and bad for Boost.
>
> Although I'm not teaching students, I can understand the difficulties
> you're talking about. However, you have to admit by the answers in
> this thread that many people managed to learn the library and use it
> extensively.

Yes.  How did they do it?

> Boost is not exclusively about teachability and learnability; I see
> practical usefullness as a key feature of Boost libraries (and I'm not
> discarding teachability and learnability by that) and Boost.Test has
> been useful for years. You can't just throw it away with no fallback.

I don't desire to throw it away.  My straw man proposal was just that: a
straw man.

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