Re: [boost] Regression tables, UI improvement...

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-16 11:07:49

[2003-02-16] David Abrahams wrote:

>Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> At 12:45 PM 2/15/2003, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>
>>  >As someone mentioned previously...
>>  >
>>  >    The links to libraries and source are broken.
>>  >
>>  >I took a few minutes to put in an ".htaccess" file on the server that
>>  >redirects those links to reasonable places.
>>  >
>>  >For the library links they are redirected to the corresponding
>>  >www.boost.org
>>  >point.
>>  >
>>  >For the source code links they are redirected to the SourceForge CVS
>> view >of the file. The cool syntax highlighted version :-)
>>
>> Wow, that's really neat! Thanks!
>>
>> The problem has always been that linking the source code to the web
>> site would reach a possibly obsolete version of the code. By linking
>> to the CVS, that problem is neatly solved.
>
>Wow!
>
>A couple of possible improvements, if you're feeling ambitious:
>
>1. Link it to the version of the file that corresponds to the test's
>   run time.
>
>2. Take the compilation-error-regexp-alist from my emacs, which is a
>   bunch of regexps that describe how to find the file and line number
>   in compiler error messages, and use it to turn all of the error
>   messages in the error logs into links to the right source line ;-)
>
>just-dreaming-ly y'rs,

"To dream, the impossible dream..." ;-)

OK, so it's not totally impossible, but just about. Maybe it'll be possible
when we generate the tables totally dynamically straight from the XML files.

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