[boost] Re: Serialization Draft #13 uploaded to files section

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-03 11:29:46

Vladimir Prus wrote:

> GCC 3.3 under linux. Vladimir Prus is doing this. I'm not sure of the
> exact status.

>Hi, Robert, 
>I've finally managed to run all the test and produce status table (thought
>it's rather tricky). The resutls are at

>    http://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/serialization.html

>As you see, there's quite a bunch of failures. I'll try to look in detail,
>and will inform you if I find the reasons.

I looked at the status table and I think its very promising.  There are
lots of tests that test different combinations.  I tried to make each
test test the minimum amount of stuff but infact, a couple of problems
will make lots of tests fail.  The first time I ran it with gcc I got 100%
failures !.  However, I believe that many of the failures will be cleared
up with just a couple of changes.  Looking at the status table, I would
bet that finding/fixing an error in the text_archive will clear up a lot of
failures.  Then I would go for void_cast as its more self contained and
could explain the pointer failures.  Of course finding the last problem
is going to be the hardest.

I am very excited about your success in this.  Pavel Vozenilek [pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden]] is making huge progress in getting
intel 7.0 / dinkumware to work which may well fix VC 6.0.  

BTW - I think this illustrates how incredibly valuable is the boost
test/build concoction.  The combination of two has really changed 
my life.

Thank you for your efforts.

Robert Ramey