Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-28 18:28:13

On 2/28/2016 4:23 PM, paul Fultz wrote:
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> On Sunday, February 28, 2016 12:23 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> On 2/27/2016 11:16 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>>> Dear Boost community,
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>>> The formal review of Paul Fultz II's Fit library starts on Wednesday, 2nd March and ends on 13th March.
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>> How do I generate the docs or run the tests for my local copy of Fit ?
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> You can build and run the tests by building the check target. For those
> unfamiliar with cmake, first configure the build directory with cmake:
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> mkdir build
> cd build
> cmake ..
> cd ..
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> Next build the check target using the native build system(such as make or
> msbuild). CMake can call the native build system to build the target 'check',
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> cmake --build build --config Release --target check
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> Also, the library can be installed by invoking the 'install' target.

Why is the CMakeLists.txt not in the 'test' subdirectory, since it 
appears from your explanation that the file is used for the tests ?

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> The documentation needs to be built using mkdocs. You can install mkdocs and
> the boost theme with pip like this:
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> pip install mkdocs mkdocs-boost
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> Then to build the documentation, first `setup.py` must be run to extract the
> documentation and examples from the source code, then `mkdocs` can be invoked,
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> python setup.py
> mkdocs build -t boost
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> And the documentation will be in the 'doc/html' directory.

Please add these explanations to Fit as you are not using Boost build to 
build the doc or run the tests.