Re: [boost] [Release 1.34] Supported Compilers - another view

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-01 05:00:33

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jody Hagins
| Sent: 31 January 2006 23:11
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: Re: [boost] [Release 1.34] Supported Compilers - another view
| 
| Without a doubt, Boost.Test singlehandedly eliminated one of 
| my biggest objections to test-first coding.
| 
| I really like what it provide.

Me too - but I found getting started VERY confusing and almost gave up.

But Gennadiy now has a whole TEAM of writers on the job of producing better
documentation - and they don't have the crippling disadvantage (for this
task) of having written the code.

With his new macros, I am confident we can produce something very simple.

But either bjam has to work a lot better than it has for me, or better, we
have to ship pre-built library files for the major users.

Given those, it's a doddle.

And it gives you a nice record of what you've tested - and what you haven't
;-)

| However...  I still can't figure out how to use the macro that checks
| equivalence between floating point numbers.  The interface is just too
| strange, and the docs are not very clear.
 
I am working on this as we speak.

Paul

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