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

Subject: Re: [boost] What Should we do About Boost.Test?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-04 22:18:27

AMDG

On 10/04/2012 12:11 AM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> Jürgen Hunold <jhunold <at> gmx.eu> writes:
> 
>>> I know nothing about b2 or with-test, but whomever is responsible feel free
>>> to stop building these (especially test execution monitor).
>>
>> That is easy, see the attached patch. Okay to commit?
> 
> No. I do need Jamfile to build prg_exec_monitor and test_exec_monitor was never 
> properly cleaned up from other QLib libs. I would do it myself (it is very 
> strait-forward exercise to replace its usage with unit test framework), but I 
> never seem to have time to do this. That said, unit test framework does not 
> require either one of them and I do not agree with claims stating otherwise. b2 
> and with-test argument is out of my control and frankly I do not know where and 
> why one uses it.
> 

--with-test is part of the user-level build process.
prg_exec_monitor does need to be built, since it is
a documented component.  It could, however, be split
out into a separate --with-xxx option.
(--with-prg_exec_monitor?)

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe