----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Schwarz" <roland.schwarz@chello.at> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 5:57 AM Subject: Re: [boost] Any interest in a library for supporting program reuse?
christopher diggins wrote:
I am trying to describe a way to write a C++ program by packaging the entire thing (entry point, global functions, global variable) in a single object.
Perhaps I am missing the point, but why not simply do something along the lines of "popen"? This will not put any requirements other than having stdin and stdout on the "base object program"?
The approach I am proposing, doesn't require the programs to have separate executable files. It also is completely platform agnostic. With something like popen() you have the following requirements: - you have to compile multiple executables - the executables must exist and you know where they are - the operating system supports piping - there is an operating system Multiple executables can be tricky to manage, etc. I want my libraries to have a single C++ program, which runs every test and benchmark, which is platform independant. This makes testing much easier. Christopher Diggins http://www.cdiggins.com http://www.heron-language.com