Re: [Cppunit-devel] regular expression match

[Duane M. <dua...@ma...>]

--- At Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:45:39 -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I haven't any real opinion on adding regular expression matching
>to CppUnit.  I presume one could always call their own favourite
>regex matcher wrapped up in CPPUNIT_ASSERT without too much trouble.
>
>However, since you mentioned the BOOST libraries, I wonder if you have
>looked at their implementations of concept checking and testing?  The
>web page (www.boost.org) indicates that there is not yet any unit test
>library.  The BOOST code is pretty well designed and the mailing list
>is full of very bright people.  So it would be a boon to have CppUnit
>involved with them.
>
>I haven't looked at any of this stuff, myself.  Has anyone else?

I am a subscriber of the boost users list <mailto:boost-users-
sub...@ya...> or <http://www.boost.org>. 

Boost has a C++ regular expression interface as well as a unit test
framework. 

The unit test framework has no relationship to CppUnit. I have mentioned
it to the developer of the Boost framework with no real response. The
present unit testing is buried in boost, I believe to test some of boost.
But the intention is that it will eventually be something like CppUnit.

I find this very disappointing as CppUnit is much farther along. I
imagine that CppUnit could also benefit greatly from the input of the
Boost group.

As I understand it, the boost regular expression library is meant to be
Perl compatible (although why not posix I am not sure). I believe boost
may be working towards getting the regular expression library into the
C++ standard library.

Be aware that I have used neither of these libraries.

 ...Duane

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