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

["Jon Stewart" <stew1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.


Granted re: the whole point. But the general trend has also been for them
to do stuff far better than most people would do/have done. That does not
[yet] appear to be the case with their unit testing framework. And it
appears that although many analogies exist, no CppUnit code was used in
the making of Boost::Test. I'll post to boost users and see if I can't get
a list of real differentiables.


Jon
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