[boost] [Test] Thread-safety

From: Cliff Green (cliffg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-06 15:38:32

Silly me - I should have looked in the Boost.Test Open 
Issues page a couple of days ago instead of wasting my 
time trying to solve some multi-threading problems in my 
own code. So a couple of enhancement requests (for 
Gennadiy, or appropriate person):

1. Please state clearly in the Boost.Test documentation 
that it is not thread-safe. I looked all through the pages 
(both the current release and the 1.31 release) but the 
only place I find mention of thread-unsafety is in the 
Open Issues page. The FAQ page would also be a good place 
to mention Boost.Test thread-unsafety, besides the main 
page (and places like Usage Recommendations, Examples, 
Compilation, etc).

2. Please consider adding thread-safeness to the 
Boost.Test libraries. I know this is not a simple request, 
and there may be other priorities ... but many of my (and 
my team's) unit tests are multi-threaded, and it's a shame 
to not be able to use Boost.Test (or even know which, if 
any, parts are thread-safe). It's a nice testing 
framework, IMO. Note that I don't need the whole library 
itself to be threaded, just to be able to do things like 
BOOST_MESSAGE and BOOST_EQUAL within my own testing 
threads. (I'll offer whatever help I can provide, within 
the constraints of my available time.)

Many thanks!

Cliff