[boost] Re: [Test] BOOST_TEST removed?

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-02 23:22:45

> > It's been deprecated *since the dawn of time*.  I planned post an
> > announcement together with library update announcement.
>
> Still, developers like to avoid broken regression tests; they're
> upsetting to developers at best.  A simple post with advance warning
> that you were going to remove BOOST_TEST would have given everyone an
> opportunity to prevent a large swath of red squares.

What's wrong with red squares? Isn't it a basic paradigm of TDD? You make
change - you fix all the test cases that failed. Failing test cases is your
announcement that something needs to be done. Anyway 3 years should've been
enough to get rid of tools that were announced deprecated.

Gennadiy