[boost] Re: more config/auto_link nitpicks

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-28 20:47:03

"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I don't know if this is relevant to the discussion, but the heavy use
>> of macros in the type traits tests foils header dependency detection
>> in bjam, which completely screws up incremental testing.  Can we go
>> back to regular #includes?
>
> The reason for those was so that the test code could be used to test
> std::tr1 implementations by just changing a couple of macros.  I can
> see why you would want the change though, so if you want to make the
> changes I won't stop you :-)

I hate to quibble about things like this, but I don't think it should
fall to me to repair a change which breaks our testing procedures.  I
can think of approaches which allow a similar easy switch to occur
without obscuring the #include directives, FWIW.  It makes more work
for the maintainer of type_traits, of course...

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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