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


"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> 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


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