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From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-07 05:48:03


Without wanting to be too pedantic (!), do we have a policy about which
toolsets are tested on the release branch? I'm asking because we currently
have a large number of failures for the "stdcxx" (Apache std lib) tests.
Whilst we certainly should be testing this on the trunk going forward, it's
not previously been a required release platform, hence the large number of
failures.

There are also one set of results (for msvc-8.0-stdcxx-4.2.1) that appear to
failing almost everything and isn't even compiling the "hello world"
config_info program:
http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/output/msvc-8-0-stdcxx-4-2-1-boost-bin-v2-status-config_info-test-msvc-8-0-debug-stdlib-stdcxx-4-2-1-threading-multi.html

IMO this failure is made worse because the toolset used is simply called
"msvc-8.0" so it shows up as a *required* platform, rather than a
currently-unsupported one. Likewise the Sunpro and gcc tests with the
apache std lib are simply called "gcc-4.2.1" and "sun".

Apologies to the test runner for the gripe: we really do need you and
appreciate the effort! It's just that we also need to be able to clearly
focus on what is and is not required for *this next release*.

Thanks, John.


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