Re: [boost] Attn: users of minimal.hpp and boost/test/includedheaders

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-18 18:44:54

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:4717DC3A.2050700_at_acm.org...
> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Those of you who use minmial.hpp have to add boost/test/minimal in
>> requirements section of Jamfile.
>> Those who are using included variant of the UTF should add
>> boost/test/included.
>>
>> This is nessesary to enable async exceptions for msvc toolset. Otherwise
>> some of the Boost.Test functionality may not work as expected, especially
>> with msvc 8.0.
>
> IIUC, you are proposing a breaking change.

I am not proposing any changes. This is how it was for a long while.

> How many libraries are affected?

I don't really know. I just notices it in SmokeTest result page.

I had a discussion with Volodya yesterday and he says BB can't figure it out 
by itself and this is what he proposed.

I obviously would prefer BB to deduce it somehow automatically, since it 
analyze header dependencies anyway.

Gennadiy