RE: [boost] Re: regression test tools ported to vacpp

From: Rozental, Gennadiy (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-07 06:54:20

> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> 
> > "Toon Knapen" <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> > news:40BF16BA.8080009_at_fft.be...
> > 
> >>The regression test tools are finally ported to vacpp version 6 and 
> >>the
> > 
> > I just spend half an hour to clean my code after this port. I do 
> > understand that you just wanted to make it work on your 
> compiler. But 
> > lets in a future first discuss it here on a list before you commit 
> > this kind of modifications.
> > 
> 
> There was a discussion about all these issues for about a 
> week now with 
> clearly marked in the header that it was about the test 
> library. Since 
> you only responded to the last of the series of mails, I thought you 
> were OK with the other modifications.

Yes. I was Ok with basic_cstring modification. Not the rest.

I was actually hoped you (somebody familiar with PP) find a fix to IBM VA
issues with BOOST_PP.
As it stands now I simply disable access control for this compiler, what is
wrong. 

> Generally I always contact the developer personally before 
> commiting a 
> change. However, I already have tried to contact you privately but I 
> never got a reply.

It could be. I had to abandon three of my accounts lately. One because I
moved. One because it's no longer free. One because it became unusable due
to spam.
Use gennadiy <dot> rozental <at> thomson <dot> com.
 
> Anyway, in the future I will again try to contact you before 
> committing 
> soth.
> 
> May I also ask to elaborate on what you found not to be clean 
> about the 
> port and how and why you changed these changes. This might be 
> interesting information for future ports.

You couldn't just manually unfold macro definition all over the code. It
makes code look like a mess IMO. See, what I did in cvs.

Regards,

Gennadiy.