RE: [boost] Re: Wave C++ Review Begins Today - February 7, 2005

From: Hartmut Kaiser (HartmutKaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-17 03:16:04

Larry Evans wrote:

>      * What is your evaluation of the documentation?
> 
>        Needs some work.  Details on what work provided by my
>      	previous posts and the current attachment.

Thanks for these fixes, I'm currently incorporating them into the
documentation.

>      * Did you try to use the library? With what compiler?
>      	Did you have any problems?
> 
>        Yes, with the g++ compiler, version 3.3.4.  However,
>      	as noted by other respondents, the boost filesystem
>      	doesn't believe character, +, is valid filename
>      	character; yet, some g++ system header filenames
>      	include that character.
> 
>        Another problem was that my wave took about 4 minutes
>      	while using most of the cpu before aborting when
>      	parsing a BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS call.

I really would like to further investigate this. I plan to build Wave here
on my Windows machine with Cygwin to try to reproduce your problem. I'll get
back to you as soon as I have any new results.

>      * Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost
>      	library? Be sure to say this explicitly so that your
>      	other comments don't obscure your overall opinion.
> 
>        Most definitely, but I'd sure like some help getting
>      	wave to work for me.  I suspect I've done something
>      	wrong since Paul Mensonides has obviously used it to
>      	do something more complicated than
>      	BOOST_PP_ENUM_PARAMS :(

Thanks!
Defintely it is usable in more sophisticated contexts, even if it is slower
than gcc.

Regards Hartmut