Re: [boost] [1.36.0] Libraries with unmerged changes?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 10:15:38

on Thu Jul 17 2008, "vicente.botet" <vicente.botet-AT-wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> One way to detect some incompatible evolutions could be to run the
> tests from the preceding release (1.35) with the new release headers
> and sources (1.36). I don't know SVN enough to know if such a view
> (snapshot?) is easy to create. If all the test and examples where in a
> separate directory this will be surely easier to do.

It's not overly difficult.  It will be easier with the foundations
created by the boost-cmake project because the libraries are
modularized.

> The cost of making these test work without modifying at all the new
> release, will give us an idea of the cost the users will have on their
> migrations.

That's an excellent idea.

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Dave Abrahams
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