Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?

Subject: Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?
From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-17 12:03:08

On 17-09-2012 16:40, Dave Abrahams wrote:

> As a straw man, I'll make this suggestion:
>
> - Boost.Test is officially deprecated in the next release
> - Its documentation, such as it is, is removed from the release after
>    that
> - Meanwhile, other tests in Boost that use this library are rewritten to
>    use a different mechanism
> - The code is removed from Boost thereafter

Well, that's a huge amount of work, removing something that works quite 
well.

Then comes the cost for all users of Boost.Test, which must migrate to 
something else.

So

-1

for deprecation.

-Thorsten