Re: [boost] Regression test / compiler status progress

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-09 18:17:00

At 11:38 AM 7/9/2002, Rob Stewart wrote:

 >From: "William E. Kempf" <williamkempf_at_[hidden]>
 >>
 >> From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
 >>
 >> > The program which creates the status HTML is available at:
 >> >
 >> > The program which creates the log HTML is available at:
 >> >
 >> A suggestion... instead of generating HTML I'd generate XML.  You can
 >then
 >> generate HTML from the XML using XSLT.  The reasons for doing this:
 >
 >I second this idea.  XML will make the data far more useful.

Yes, agreed, although right now our problem isn't the final output format, 
but how to parse and/or interpret the Jam output and build residue to 
figure out what the output should be.  Right now we can't for sure tell if 
a test worked or not.

Another possible problem is that adding XML/XSLT lengthens the tool chain 
still further.  If there is a standard set of XML/XSLT tools that runs on 
all platforms available for free download, that may be a non-problem. What 
tools would we start with if we were to start down the XML/XSLT road?

--Beman