Re: [Boost-users] Fix for annoying bug / library maintenance

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Fix for annoying bug / library maintenance
From: Filip Konvička (filip.konvicka_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-30 07:59:19

> You could do a pull request for the interval library on the 'develop'
> branch. If the maintainer of 'interval' does not respond to that, then
> Boost could look for a co-maintainer who would do so. Also I suggest
> that you add an interval test as part of your pull request that shows
> the bug and that also shows that your fix is working.
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModPatchAndPullReq

I succeeded in cloning the interval library and applying my patch 
locally.  But I was not successful in running the regression tests; bjam 
says:

link.jam: No such file or directory
..\..\..\..\Jamroot:154: in modules.load
ERROR: rule "link-directory" unknown in module 
"Jamfile<C:\build\boost_1_55_0>".
C:/build/boost_1_55_0/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:311: in load-jamfile
C:/build/boost_1_55_0/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:64: in load
<snip>

I was hoping that I could really provide a test for what my patch fixes. 
  By searching some forums I found out that this is probably due to the 
process of moving Boost from SVN to Git, and I'm not sure whether or not 
it makes sense that I fetch the most recent snapshot (from Git? or SVN?) 
of Boost for the regression test run.

Or do you think that I should just make the pull request on just the 
code change?  (The fix is quite simple...)

Thanks,
Filip