On 17/09/2012 10:40 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
I am not at all attached to removing Boost.Test from Boost, but IMO rescuing it would require a significant new investment of time and energy from people who are committed to bringing the library up to par with the rest of what we do. (I seriously thought about volunteering for this myself, but realistically speaking, I don't have the time, and volunteering for something you can't actually do is worse than not volunteering at all.) Even if volunteers show up, I'd suggest proceeding with the plan above, subject to reversal at any time the work actually gets done.
I agree with everything you have said but the library itself is gold. One of my favourites for testing. However, I can never figure out anything from the documentation and everything I know about it is from spelunking the source code. Is there some way we can get a student interested in technical writing to rewrite the documentation? It would be good for their resume. Thanks for bringing up this topic. Sohail