Re: [boost] Handling testcases that are known to fail?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-29 14:05:04

At 07:07 AM 1/29/2002, John Maddock wrote:

 >
 >>It really isn't a problem with Regex's config, but a problem with 
FreeBSD
 >>3.4: the libraries have no wide character support. Regex handles this
 >>properly by not building any of the wide character support, but a 
testcase
 >
 >>such as wregress will always fail on the platform through no fault of
 >regex.
 >>wide_posix_api_check (both C and C++ versions) will also fail 
consitently
 >on
 >>FreeBSD 3.4.
 >
 >OK, yes I guess I should change the wide character regex test programs to
 >do nothing in that case, especially now that the config has it's own test
 >cases....

Yes, but you don't want to mislead users into thinking that wregress works 
on that platform.

Seems we really need three categories - "pass", "fail", and "forget it on 
this non-conforming platform"

--Beman