On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 7:59 AM, rohit dhamija <rohit.dhamija@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable across a broad range of applications, but yet there is no official support available for Android and iOS
1. Is there any specific reason behind the same (like not optimized for embedded devices)? Or any other reason?
Yes. These platforms are not officially supported because no one has volunteered to run regression tests regularly for them.
It is not possible for a Boost developer to test on all platforms. So developers depend on the test results of regression tests run by volunteers. For example, see http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/summary.html
If no one volunteers to run the tests for a particular platform, that platform is not officially supported.
So if you care about Android or iOS becoming officially supported, start running regular (preferably daily) regression tests for Boost. See http://beta.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html
--Beman
I'm working on porting boost to blackberry10. So at least one mobile platform might have vendor-supported boost. If someone could explain how to get tests built on "host" compiler/system to automatically run on the "target" system, I would set up these regression tests and try to get a dedicated machine to add to the list of test regular regression tests. Tony