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Re: Warming up for 0.3.5

Posted by Luigi Ballabio-2 on Feb 16, 2004; 8:56am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Warming-up-for-0-3-5-tp10479p10482.html

On 2004.02.16 10:25, Ferdinando Ametrano wrote:
> For 0.3.5 I would prefer not to ship binaries. My idea is that  
> QuantLib is for quantitative developers that must be able to  
> recompile the library, and should be able to compile and run the test  
> suite. What do you think about it?

I second that. As a matter of fact, I've been arguing that for quite  
some time :)

> If I got it right boost is going to be optional for 0.3.5. I for one  
> vote to have it as requirement for 0.3.6: if everybody agree we  
> should make clear that 0.3.5 is transitional toward boost.

Yes, that was the idea.

> BTW Luigi: any chance about using the boost test suite instead of  
> cppunit? Have you ever compared the two approaches?

Yes, I've been looking at the boost test framework for another project.  
It should be relatively painless to switch.

Later,
        Luigi