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Mateusz Loskot <mateusz <at> loskot.net> writes:
I'm wondering why the floating-point algorithms [1] implementation in floating_point_comparison.hpp lives in Boost UTF.
There are number of things which can be used in production code which resides under boost/test hood. How does it prevents you from using it? Is it only general confusion?
It does not prevents me at all or anyone else I suppose too. I just found that for some users it is confusing and some users do not recognize those tools as general purpose ones. Also, there is a kind of psychological effect of yet another third party dependency that may make some users to avoid those tools :-) I say what I've experienced when I tried to suggest to use the FP algorithms in Boost.Geometry (GGL). I saw Boost.Test FP algorithms seem to be used in Boost.Graph and perhaps others, but it looks like exceptional cases. Simply, my understanding is that those algorithms state a well-known robust implementation of floating-point comparison and as such it is recommended to be used across Boost libraries so their clients as well. Thus, a bit of promotion seems beneficial :-)
Shouldn't it go to location that would suggest i
t's not only
usable for unit tests but it is a general purpose tool.
I do not object too much, other than support assignment. Up till now I was primarily concentrating on staff under boost/test. Or you suggest move the support to the math library authors?
I think it some sort of math utilities would be a good place.
Another point is that Boost.Test strives to limit dependencies on other components. Placing these headers elsewhere might break this policy.
Understood.
Incidentally I've got a proposal for the session for boostcon to cover production use of Boost.Test. If it's approved we can discuss this subject as well.
I'll stay tuned. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net