>This weekend I'll try to find time and do the git version of the patch. After that, I am heading out the door.
That would be too bad. >What's the point of being on "dev" list of a project that considers itself "100% complete" ? By definition, there will be no dev. I must've missed that statement :) >As for "boost" vs "no boost": I routinely intersect with people who don' t know boost and can't seem to overcome the energy barrier required to become proficient. Yes, they code their >own hashtables. Yes, those are buggy and slow. I deal with it. It has nothing to do with proficiency or lack thereof - I follow boost closely, and personally am extremely interested in the template meta-programming aspect of it. I have just yet to find a use for 90% of it in our day to day projects. Yes, developing business systems is clearly not as "exciting" or cutting edge as some scientific research or engineering coding, but (at least in my country) that's where the money and business is. I also don't believe in re-inventing the wheel. And I don't want to keep harping on boost. Frankly, in my case, we are merely here to deliver business support tools and processes to our clients to enable them to operate better. Not necessarily pretty or cool solutions, but solutions that arrive quickly and work effectively, so that we can move on to the next requirement. To this end, I believe in using the simplest available 3rd party library, which I can pull into my source tree the fastest. One thing boost in particular is NOT, is simple. The level of complexity it adds, simply does not make business sense in terms of the little functionality in it my team may one day use. Hashtable? There's literally hundreds of (proven) ones on the net, several of them comparable to boost in terms of speed, or at least "good enough or "fast enough", which is a concept us mathematically minded developers seem to struggle with. >I think eventually C++ will collapse under the weight of its own complexity. 100% agree. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ unittest-cpp-devel mailing list unittest-cpp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unittest-cpp-devel
