Re: [ALACPP] Boost 1.30 works well with vc 7.1

[Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 11:36, Jon Stewart wrote:
> > Some of their most useful libraries right now are:
> > NEW:
> >  * Test: They're finally getting their testing facilities up
> >     to speed. Now similar to CppUnit, with a few added
> >     capabilities and a few things still missing. I'll probably wait
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any insight as to why they're working on this? It seems 
> like a pretty good example of NIH. CppUnit, while a little crufty in 
> places, is featureful, easy-to-use, robust, and very similar to other unit 
> testing frameworks (JUnit et al), which have gained acceptance in the 
> industry.
> 
> In fact, I was just able to sell my boss on incorporating the use of 
> CppUnit into our dev process. The fact that I was able to download it, 
> build it, construct a simple test, and get things running as post-build so 
> easily definitely strengthened my case.

I think the whole point of the Boost project is not so much to do things
which nobody else has done, but to accumulate things that people tend to
need. The idea is to eventually get at least some of this stuff into the
standard.

So, for example, most of the stuff with smart pointers has been done
somewhere else. Certainly more sophisticated filesystem libraries exist.
The thread library resembles stuff I've built on my own at least twice.
I'd say at least half of boost is incredibly obvious stuff, and I
suspect the other half is incredibly obvious stuff to whomever has
worked in that area.

The smart thing they *are* doing is they are borrowing as much as
possible from other projects. So, there is lots of Loki stuff in there,
as well as from projects like CppUnit.

-- 
Christopher Smith <x@xxxxxxxx>
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