[boost] Re: Experimental compiler status annotation

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-29 11:45:06

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> An experimental version of today's Win32 compiler status table is
> available at http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/cs-win32.html
>
> Please look at the random library tests as an example. You should be
> able to click on the "fail" superscripts to see a note as to the
> specific status of each failure.
>
> This detailed accounting is intended to let Boost users, developers,
> release managers, and compiler vendors know more about test failures.
>
> Because of the human effort involved, it will only be possible to do
> this detailed accounting for compilers which have a small number of
> failures. I'm hoping that for the next Boost release we can set a
> release criteria of accounting for 100% of all tests on at least a few
> compilers.
>
> Comments?

1. What do humans have to do in order to produce this annotation?

2. I still strongly prefer the overall format that meta-comm has been
   publishing.  Can we integrate with that?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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