Re: [boost] Re: Draft Tutorial / Guidelines for Authors of Boost LibrariesContaining Separate Source

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-07 00:39:17

On Thursday 06 November 2003 02:28 am, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> > I've put together a set of draft guidelines come tutorial for libraries
>
> that
>
> > have separate source code - this is really just a distillation of my
> > experience with the regex library, updated to reflect Rene's forthcoming
> > install code.  Most of what follows is unashamedly Windows centric, there
> > being much fewer issues effecting Unix shared libraries.  It also doesn't
> > cover the build system / Jamfiles required, but I suspect that Rene is
> > working on that already.  The complete text is shown below, as ever
>
> comments
>
> > are very welcome!
>
> It's all very enlighting. I will apply it to Boost.Test right after
> release.
>
> Gennadiy.

Personally, I'd think it would be a great goal to use this universally in 
1.31.0. We're held up a bit on the release anyway, so why not try to fix this 
obnoxious problem once and for all, while we're thinking about it?

(Yes, I'm porting Signals over right now)

        Doug