On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote:
* GitHub.? exercise? and other links are broken?
Fixed all the broken links, including creation of https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartGitHub
* Layout of directory structure seems a significantly different structure to most Boost libraries, with boost_1-0-99/boost and boost_1-0-99/libs (as referenced http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Directory_structure. Is this intended?
* Where do example and doc (and build and src go)?
* Surely no library project (however simple) should exist without /doc and /example (and /test) folders?
I've added a comment explaining the omissions are for the sake of brevity.
* The output from any non-trivial library will be better sent to a log file - and even simple ones that don't work as expected are better attached to a "help!" message than pasted suffering end-of-line mutilation by the mail program.
Changed.
* "Hint: (((git help command-name}}}... " does look right? A TODO?
Fixed formatting typo.
* Has anyone actually used these instructions yet? (Some previous Boost instructions didn't actually work if you followed them blindly :-(
They work on my main desktop Windows machine. Has anyone else tried them?
* These instructions don't guide a user with an IDE Visual Studio, NetBeans, Eclipse ... on how to set up their project so that it can be easily transferred from (and to) the development tool.
Perhaps Boosters could contribute pages for various IDE's. I could do VisualStudio, but doubt I'll have time in the immediate future.
* Nor do they deal with the most common case of people moving sandbox SVN projects to git. Or will this be done automatically? (Some might be pruned as obsolete/abandoned?
There has been some discussion of that, but no one has committed to documenting the process. Any takers? Thanks for your careful reading, much appreciated! --Beman