Re: [boost] Re: plans for a bugfix release ?

From: Douglas Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-17 00:08:03

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From: "Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]>
> Beman Dawes wrote:
> > What is really needed is to add a "history" element to the test_log.xml
> > files. That would be far more reliable. Let me think about it overnight.
>
> The way we do it in the new reports is to extract the failures from the
> original regression run and pass them as "expected failures" to the input
> of the scripts producing the today's reports. The scripts merge these into
> "extended results" XML, and then produce the HTML reports basing on that.
> Works perfectly.
>
> All XML processing is done through XSLT, but it's very worth it - the
> stlysheets which do the extracting and merging are barely 100 lines long.
>
> Aleksey

I don't have the time now, but if it's feasible for you I would absolutely
_love_ if we could integrate this with BoostBook in the future. If I had my
way, everything would run through the documentation system so that
everything would be documented (see, e.g., the testsuite documentation and
generation for Function) and in sync.

    Doug