Re: [boost] Re: 1.31.0 regressions

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-13 02:18:54

Rene Rivera writes:
> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Jeremy Siek <jsiek_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>>Yeah, that is nice, but it only shows results for one OS.
>> The Linux page also has meta-comm format links.  See the top of
>> http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/cs-Linux.html
>> IMO, we should be using the meta-comm format exclusively, but
>> apparently there isn't universal agreement on that point.
>
> I'd love to see all the test use that format.. even though I disagree
> on the L&F of it ;-)
>
> Ideally test results would be collected at one location, for example
> at metacomm, and one set of regression tables generated for
> everything. 

Yep. A single summary report for all platforms would be definitely an
improvement over what we have now. We've been planning on it for some
time, and it's not hard to implement either, just didn't have enough
time to bring it to life.

> This would remove the burden of having to figure out how
> to set up and run the XML/XSLT programs, increase the likely hood that
> we can get more people to volunteer hardware time for testing, allow
> for more complicated analisys of results, etc...

All true.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering