Re: [boost] [SoC] Summer of Code Project Ideas

Subject: Re: [boost] [SoC] Summer of Code Project Ideas
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-09 15:09:13

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>>> Would you please list the tools that produce equally useful result
>>> tables?  I am sure everybody will jump instantly as soon as such
>>> tools are identified.
>>
>> I can't resist the opportunity to flog my own library_status program
>> and library test scripts in the tools/regression/src directory.  I
>> derived these from Beman's original compiler_status source.  I use
>> it because it provides what I need in a fairly simple way.  That is
>>
>> a) it's built with C++ and boost so I didn't need to learn a whole
>> new thing.
>> b) it easily works with one library at a time on my local system
>> c) produces a much more useful table with different columns
>> for different build scenarios - release, dll, etc.
>> d) works well with bjam
>>
>> It doesn't work with all libraries as it has to make certain
>> assumptions about directory structure which are not
>> true for some libraries.  It also has a fair amount of
>> hacked code to try to accomodate these situations.  But
>> all in all, I find it exactly what I need - No surprise there
>> as I made it to solve my problems.
>
> I am not sure what motifications you have made, but unless you
> have rewritten everything from scratch I fail to see how
> this can be a solution even remotely comparable to what we have
> at present.

Hmmm - I'm not sure what you mean by "[not] comparable".  The points
a-c describe how it's different - and  in fact superior - in my view.

Robert Ramey