What is the status of DM8.45 and the boost library?

I have checked up on the boost site and there is some information about DM8.44 in relation to boost 1.33.0

Thanks

John

Perhaps nobody interested in boost here!

"John Fletcher" <J.P.Fletcher@aston.ac.uk> ??????:43314771.692E79FA@aston.ac.uk...
> What is the status of DM8.45 and the boost library?
>
> I have checked up on the boost site and there is some information about DM8.44 in relation to boost 1.33.0
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
> 

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:32:06 -0400, yxh <yangxh98@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps nobody interested in boost here!

I am.

>> What is the status of DM8.45 and the boost library?
>>
>> I have checked up on the boost site and there is some information about
>> DM8.44 in relation to boost 1.33.0

What is the URI for that info, I'd like to take a look?

I have not tried to build Boost with DM since V8.40 and 1.30.
It was a nightmare and I gave up, and switched to BCC.

I'd switch back to DM if someone can tell me that the current
Boost builds out of the box, with DM8.45.

Bob Paddock wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:32:06 -0400, yxh <yangxh98@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps nobody interested in boost here!
>
> I am.
>

There was work done before.

>
> >> What is the status of DM8.45 and the boost library?
> >>
> >> I have checked up on the boost site and there is some information about DM8.44 in relation to boost 1.33.0
>
> What is the URI for that info, I'd like to take a look?
>

http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/

(It is a link from http://www.boost.org/ near the top righthand corner)

Not "out of the box" yet.

>
> I have not tried to build Boost with DM since V8.40 and 1.30. It was a nightmare and I gave up, and switched to BCC.
>
> I'd switch back to DM if someone can tell me that the current Boost builds out of the box, with DM8.45.

John

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:27:52 -0400, John Fletcher <J.P.Fletcher@aston.ac.uk> wrote:

>> What is the URI for that info, I'd like to take a look?
>>
>
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/

http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/summary.html

Shows only four passed out of about fifty test for DM8.44, pretty dismal.

"Bob Paddock" <graceindustries@gmail.com> wrote in message news:op.sxiarkc5ocfjro@grace002.graceinc.com...
> I have not tried to build Boost with DM since V8.40 and 1.30. It was a nightmare and I gave up, and switched to BCC.

It's likely because many have made the effort to provide workarounds in boost for BCC, not that BCC is more compatible.

Bob Paddock wrote:
> 
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/summary.html
> 
> Shows only four passed out of about fifty test for DM8.44, pretty dismal.

That page is only an overview, and makes DMC look much worse because no one has annotated the failures on digital mars. For example see the detail for type_traits:

http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/type_traits.html

Dmc passes more tests than vc-7, but on the summary vc-7 is green, dmc is yellow (I'm just comparing those two because they're adjacent).

Also, many of the failures are down to problems with Boost.Test or problems with the build system. Not the actual library itself. As far as dmc is concerned that page is meaningless.

It's difficult to get dmc working with the build system though, especially if you don't have the CD.

Daniel

"Daniel James" <daniel@calamity.org.uk> wrote in message news:dgvdgi$250p$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> It's difficult to get dmc working with the build system though, especially if you don't have the CD.

Why? DMC is exceptionally easy to install/use. In fact, it doesn't even need to be "installed", as it doesn't muck about with the registry or environment variables.

Walter Bright wrote:
> "Daniel James" <daniel@calamity.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:dgvdgi$250p$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>It's difficult to get dmc working with the build system though,
>>especially if you don't have the CD.
> 
> 
> Why? DMC is exceptionally easy to install/use. In fact, it doesn't even need
> to be "installed", as it doesn't muck about with the registry or environment
> variables.

Oh, I wouldn't disagree with that at all - most of what I've done so far has been done via the compile line or using make and it's worked fine. But Boost.Build is a bit odd. It's designed for using multiple compilers and mulitple configurations simultaneously. So it tries to control everything through the command line - such as include paths, libraries linked, etc. The default setup tries to use versions of the libraries not supplied by the download (eg. by default it uses the dynamic version of the libraries).

There's probably a combination of Boost.Build options that will get it to work with the download, but I haven't really tried to find them yet. It doesn't help that Boost.Build works very badly with Windows 9x (I'm mainly a linux user, so I never upgraded). Another part of the problem is that I'm not sure what is causing the link errors in the test results. Such as: http://tinyurl.com/c8tdo. Hopefully over the next week or two I'll get a better idea.

Boost.Build v1 has been due to be replaced with v2 for a long time - I had been planning to look into this when this happens, as v2 is a lot easier to use. But the transition never seems to happen.

Daniel

Bob Paddock wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:27:52 -0400, John Fletcher <J.P.Fletcher@aston.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >> What is the URI for that info, I'd like to take a look?
> >>
> >
> > http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/
>
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_33_0/user/summary.html
>
> Shows only four passed out of about fifty test for DM8.44, pretty dismal.

I was hoping that 8.45 would be better.  Perhaps there are a few reasons why a lot fail.

John