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Subject: Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-18 16:06:47


On 09/17/2012 04:40 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:

> I don't mean this posting as an attack on Gennadiy in any way, but I
> think the situation is unacceptable and therefore am opening a
> discussion about what should happen.
>
> 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

Isn't Boost.Test's only problem the fact that other Boost libraries are
tested against the trunk rather than the release version?

Isn't that something the modularized Boost is supposed to fix?


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