Re: configure test and requirements for using rapidjson

[John W. Eaton]

On 8/17/20 9:44 PM, Kai Torben Ohlhus wrote:

> Short:
> Abdallah is still working on it [1].  RapidJSON is a header only library
> and is only needed during the Octave build.  There will be two ways to
> deal with this:

OK.  Sorry if my message seemed overly critical, I did not mean it to be.

> Long:
> The last public release of RapidJSON [3] was 2016-08-25.  Since then
> some useful bug fixes and improvements (a pretty-writer, etc.) came into
> the library.  All begging by RapidJSON users didn't motivate the
> maintainers for a new release.  But it is still the fastest JSON
> implementation around [4].

Thanks for the info.  I didn't know about the release status.

> Often our GSoC candidate's code wasn't applied even half year later and
> I wanted to avoid this GSoC final cset push paralysis.  The problem with
> this "final changeset" is, that there is always something to improve.
> The frustration with the student and mentor grows when having to create
> this "final changeset" cset and review over and over again.  And even
> after the push there were errors to be fixed.
>
> Thus my idea this year was to apply the working code early to the
> development repository.

I agree.  Thanks for your work on this project.

jwe