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From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-23 15:59:01


At 02:09 PM 7/23/2002, Jeff Garland wrote:

>> I considered that, but the management of all those files would be a
>> serious
>> problem in our current environment. Moving them across the Internet to
a
>> server is a problem. If we had control over the server, we could
>> probably
>> work something out, but that is hard to do as it stands now.
>
>I'm not sure I understand the issue? Isn't the process:
>
>1) Generate XML
>2) Postprocess --> HTML files
>3) tar/zip generated html files
>4) FTP
>5) untar/unzip

My understanding is that SourceForge doesn't give us any mechanism to do
the untar/unzip. Perhaps some other server would be willing to give us an
account that would allow?

>> Basically, just add your tests to status/Jamfile. It is fairly
>self-explanatory.
>
>Ah yes, I see now. Is there a way to decentralize this? At a minimum it

>seems awkward to have to specify the list of tests in
>both the local library directory and the status directory.

That's a question for the Boost.Build folks:-)

--Beman


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