RE: [boost] Beta posted for new regression tests

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