Re: [boost] Usability of http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-30 10:00:25

On Wednesday 29 January 2003 12:20 pm, David Abrahams wrote:
> It seems to me that while lib developers may be interested in the "big
> table", most users, unless they care extraordinarily about
> portability, will want to know about individual compiler results.  I
> wonder if we shouldn't be assembling the HTML on-the-fly for all
> tables, and just having testers upload jam logs?  I know this goes
> against the grain of Beman's desire to produce the HTML with C++ code
> because of CGI portability issue, but I have the sense that until we
> have a true portable C++ virtual machine this might be the wrong kind
> of job for our favorite language.
>
> -Dave

One option would be to dump the tests in some XML format, because we can 
easily transform that into the various HTML pages we'd want with an XSLT 
processor. Sourceforge has xsltproc available on its servers...

[Yes, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but I really don't think we 
should ever be generating documentation directly from C++ code.]

        Doug