Re: [boost] A small utility for template policy selection

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-13 18:14:47

Felipe Magno de Almeida <felipe.m.almeida_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 2/10/06, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> I hope you don't feel your efforts have gone to waste, but I don't
>> think there's much left to do.  From my point-of-view, it was not a
>> waste at all because it prodded us to get the NTP feature done in
>> Boost.Parameter.  Daniel tells me you wrote over 400 tests for your
>> library!  It might be a great contribution if the logic of those tests
>> could be reworked to test Boost.Parameter instead.  At the very least
>> we'd discover if we were missing anything important provided in your
>> work.
>
> Will this NTP feature in parameter library be on the 1.34 release?
> I'm desperately needing this.

Yes, it's already in the main trunk of CVS.  See
libs/parameter/test/ntp.cpp

Don't be distracted by the function types there; they're just used to
assemble all the parameter results and easily test that we have what
we expected.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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