The Wave C++ preprocessor library review begins today February 7, 2005.
I obviously did not have chance to look into this submission in details (though it does seems like a quite an achievement), but I have couple general questions: 1. Why do we need it? I mean why do we need it here in boost? I admit there maybe couple dozens people in a world who are interesting in implementing/use custom C+ preprocessors, but does it make it a widely reusable component? Note I do not comment on the quality of the submission (I most probably is not qualified enough to comment on that). After all this library/utility exist already and available to public. 2. How are we supposed to test this submission (by test I mean: make sure it works correct)? The submission package does not include any tests, while with utility of this complexity, I actually expected compliance testing facilities to exceed in side the implementation. 3. How are we supposed to comment on implementation? Beyond a sheer volume of submission (more that 1 meg in headers and sources), IMHO one needs to be an expert in both Spirit and C++ preprocessor specification to make any intelligent comments on what is written. 4. Why would you need 500k of headers? After all public interface should be something around: take this file, parse it, produce a text output? Please do not consider above as a negative comments on library by itself, I just wonder. Gennadiy