Re: [boost] Newbie Question: best installation location/setup forlinux?

2003-05-26 Thread Reece Dunn
Christo Fogelberg wrote: I'm quite new to boost, and wondering how best to install it under linux with GCC. I have no problem getting it to compile and run, but with all the .a files hidden away in huge directory trees, and the include files hidden several layers deep, I'm wondering what people ha

Re: [boost] Should regression summary consider both pass and warn aspassing?

2003-05-26 Thread Reece Dunn
It should also be possible, if the regression engine outputs an XML table of information, to support all of these different versions via different XSLT code (simplified via a parameter to the stylesheet). e.g. It is then possible to get the XSLT code to generate statistics (number

[boost] Re: Upcoming ISO/IEC ... and ->transition ;-)

2003-05-26 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Edward Diener wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Hardcore POSIX folks don't really "think C++", unfortunately. The only > > way to get it done is to deliver POSIX threading API implementation > > "on > > top" of Boost.Threads to them, I think. Well, this would also mean a > > whole bunch of

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Formal Review: Command Line & Config library

2003-05-26 Thread Vladimir Prus
Pavol, >> > L1: option level ( string and boost::any oriented, defined by >> > option_description ) L2: typed-paramter level ( represented by >> > po::parameter function ) >> > [...] >> I completely agree. Basically, this means splitting the current >> "validator" in two, as your describe above.

Re: [boost] Should regression summary consider both pass and warn as passing?

2003-05-26 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:04 AM 5/26/2003, Toon Knapen wrote: >The number of warnings also provides valuable information but indeed it's >not as important as the Pass/Fail categories so this needs to be >communicated to the viewers as well. But how ? > >I support the suggestion of Greg indicating something like: >Pas

[boost] Newbie Question: best installation location/setup for linux?

2003-05-26 Thread Christo Fogelberg
Hi everybody, I'm quite new to boost, and wondering how best to install it under linux with GCC. I have no problem getting it to compile and run, but with all the .a files hidden away in huge directory trees, and the include files hidden several layers deep, I'm wondering what people have done to

Re: [boost] --comment option for compiler status tables

2003-05-26 Thread Toon Knapen
On Friday 23 May 2003 18:15, Beman Dawes wrote: > Hopefully other regression testers will supply appropriate comment files > for their setups. I've also added this to the very handy run_tests.sh script of Rene (is that OK Rene ?) toon ___ Unsubscribe &

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Formal Review: Command Line & Config library

2003-05-26 Thread Pavol Droba
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 02:07:06PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > Pavol Droba wrote: > > > Ok, I think, I see now, where the point is. > > > > The framework is separated into two layers. > > > > L1: option level ( string and boost::any oriented, defined by > > option_description ) L2: typed-para

[boost] Re: Upcoming ISO/IEC ... and -> transition ;-)

2003-05-26 Thread Edward Diener
Alexander Terekhov wrote: > Hardcore POSIX folks don't really "think C++", unfortunately. The only > way to get it done is to deliver POSIX threading API implementation > "on > top" of Boost.Threads to them, I think. Well, this would also mean a > whole bunch of extensions to the current POSIX thre

[boost] Re: Upcoming ISO/IEC ... and -> transition ;-)

2003-05-26 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > "William E. Kempf" wrote: > [...] > > >> How about moving this discussion to c.p.t.? > > > > > > Well, just in case... > > > > Thanks... I currently can't access c.p.t. in any reasonable manner. I'm > > working to rectify this, > > http://news.cis.dfn.de might hel

[boost] Re: Re: Re: Formal Review: Command Line & Config library

2003-05-26 Thread Vladimir Prus
Pavol Droba wrote: > Ok, I think, I see now, where the point is. > > The framework is separated into two layers. > > L1: option level ( string and boost::any oriented, defined by > option_description ) L2: typed-paramter level ( represented by > po::parameter function ) > > L2 should work abov

[boost] Re: CLA/Config file library opinion

2003-05-26 Thread Vladimir Prus
Hi Gennadiy, Gennadiy Rozental wrote: > This is not a review of the supplied library. I am not gonna discuss > docs > even though they are scarce. I almost don't mention implementation/code/ > testing. I just want to express my opinion on design of the library. Thanks for taking the time to

Re: [boost] Re: Re: Formal Review: Command Line & Config library

2003-05-26 Thread Pavol Droba
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:41:08AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote: > Pavol Droba wrote: > > >> The only problem with current 'validator' is that it should validate > >> *string* and return the value. So, the example given by Tanton: > >> > >>_1 >= 1 && _1 <= 9) > >> > >> would not really work --

Re: [boost] Should regression summary consider both pass and warn aspassing?

2003-05-26 Thread Toon Knapen
On Sunday 25 May 2003 23:18, Beman Dawes wrote: > I think that Greg Comeau has a good point in his email below - reporting > separate pass / warn / fail statistics in the regression summary can be > misleading to naive readers. > > On the other hand, we certainly want to continue to report warni

Re: [boost] Should regression summary consider both pass and warnas passing?

2003-05-26 Thread Guillaume Melquiond
On Sun, 25 May 2003, Beman Dawes wrote: > I think that Greg Comeau has a good point in his email below - reporting > separate pass / warn / fail statistics in the regression summary can be > misleading to naive readers. (What are naive readers trying to do with Boost? :-) ) I think this column i

[boost] CLA/Config file library opinion

2003-05-26 Thread Gennadiy Rozental
Hi, This is not a review of the supplied library. I am not gonna discuss docs even though they are scarce. I almost don't mention implementation/code/ testing. I just want to express my opinion on design of the library. Following list is not ordered by importance nor any other order. It just