Re: [Boost-testing] Help wanted: regression tests xsl maintenance

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-25 10:57:47

Sebastian Redl wrote:
> Phil Endecott wrote:
>> Suggestion: abandon this stuff, and write it again in Python or C++.
>> I speak from my own previous bad experience of this language, which I 
>> will not use again.
>>   
> Aside from being complex, it's also rather big. And an imperative
> version would be even bigger. So I'm not sure if that's such a good idea.

 From personal experience I can say that's likely not true :-) ... I did 
such a port for the doxygen2boostbook.xsl (49.7K) 
<http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/trunk/tools/boostbook/xsl/doxygen/> 
to Python (35.7K) 
<http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/trunk/tools/build/v2/tools/doxproc.py>. 
A 14K difference (~30%), and that includes a larger comment/code ratio 
on the Python code.

Regardless the ideal, which has been mentioned before, is to go directly 
to a database and generate the pages dynamically.

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