Re: [boost] [Test] breaking changes in test invocation

Subject: Re: [boost] [Test] breaking changes in test invocation
From: Jürgen Hunold (jhunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-07 12:15:21

Hi Gennadiy,

Am Montag, 5. Oktober 2015, 18:47:20 schrieb Gennadiy Rozental:
> I tried to explain rationale here:
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/263463

Gah, I overlooked that one, too. The rationale makes sense. 

> In a summary: we want to properly report incorrect command line arguments.
> This kind of scheme is used in many places and Boost.Test just follow the
> suite.

I'm with out at this. Maybe some more SHOUTING in the subject would have been 
better. And maybe some preprocessor #define to select old/new commandline 
parser during compilation. This would have allowed the testers to use the old 
behaviour while figuring out how to adapt testing.jam. The same goes for 
c++11/03 switches, of course. But I think that going forward is the best way 
out of this...

Yours,

Jürgen
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