Robert Ramey wrote:
David Abrahams wrote:
on Sun Jul 29 2007, Edward Diener <eldiener-AT-tropicsoft.com> wrote:
We all know it's a problem, but nobody has yet designed and implemented a solution. Perhaps you'd be willing to take up the charge?
Well, I have the same problem.
Here is what I'm doing to address it. snip...
I believe that every user of boost in a production environmentment should undergoe this process. (Actually, a similar process should be undertaken with all software. Commercial software usually includes a series of tests and demos that the user can can run to verify that everything works as it is expected to.
You believe that every end user who wants to use a particular Boost library should run a test script just to determine whether or not that library is supported by Boost for the compiler/version which that person uses ? That would be fine if Boost supplied such a test script for each library for any particular version of Boost, or even intends to support such a test script in the future. Is there presently such a script ? If so, and it were as easy to run as specifying a command on a command line within whatever is the shell for the particular operating system the user runs, or even if it were a Python script which requires some version of the free Python product on the end users machine, I would be glad to use it, and I imagine many other end users would also. Please understand I am talking about something which can test any particular library and not Boost as a whole, since trying to determine Boost as a whole, for a particular compiler/version for a particular version of Boost, is done by the config system. My point is that the config system may well say that a particular compiler/version is supported as a whole while a particular library may not support that compiler/version. That is often the case with older, more non-conforming libraries and while programmer's may well want to use the latest version of a particular compiler or a better compiler, the contingencies of work in corporate America, or corporate anyplace else, as well as the end users own choice, may keep that from happening.