Re: [boost] Win32 Regression tests now on SourceForge

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-05 18:19:40

On Monday 05 August 2002 06:46 pm, Beman Dawes wrote:
> It would be easy for the program that generates the Status Reporting to
> look in a file for a list of test/compiler/version[/platform] combinations
> that need to be reported with some special status.  The file could live in
> CVS, so developers can maintain it for their own tests.  IOW, it wouldn't
> be the responsibility of the people who run the regression tests to figure
> out when it applied.
>
> Brainstorming a bit, let's say this is called the broken-compiler file.  If
> test/compiler/version[/platform] names match the current cell, it will be
> reported as "Broken" or similar, with a link to a description that says
> something like:
>
> "This compiler fails to comply with the C++ standard in some aspect
> required to pass this test.  The developer knows of no practical
> workaround.  Complain to the compiler vendor!"
>
> Is that what you had in mind?

Yes, that's what I had in mind. Perhaps in the .cpp file containing the test 
we could have lines like this:

// XFAIL toolsetname1
// XFAIL toolsetname2
// ...

The toolset name for each test is already available in the program that 
generates the status reports, right?

        Doug