RE: [boost] PREPROCESSOR library is now in CVS

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (alexy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-26 13:26:41

Beman Dawes wrote:
> Boost doesn't want to get into the compiler conformance and 
> performance testing business.  But it might be nice to figure 
> out a way to shine some light on compilers with less than 
> robust preprocessors, very slow preprocessors, less than 
> robust template engines, very slow template instantiation, 
> and some of the other QOI issues impacting Boost users.

Explicit documentation of the problems a particular library has with
particular compilers could be a first step. Regression tests are not a
replacement for this, because often the library author(s) go a long way to
workaround a lot of those issues. Next step would be to have a page that
contains an index of these issues, categorized by compiler vendor. It would
already be something.

Aleksey