Re: [boost] Re: Expected Errors?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-01 21:10:01

At 10:31 AM 12/1/2003, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >At 05:21 PM 11/29/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 > >//  toolset/test-name,note-#
 > >//  toolset/*library-name,note-#
 > >
 > >Doesn't seem to provide enough ambiguity resolution.  What if we have
 > >two tests with the same name?
 >
 >Ah! It was implemented before we allowed duplicate test names.
 >
 >Will fix.
 >
 > >Also, I'd like to be able to say, "any toolset which fails this test
 > >gets note X".  We have a few tests in the iterators library which
 > >should get the new note "this failure is not serious and won't affect
 > >most users; the library degrades gracefully", whenever they fail.
 >
 >Seems like this is really two features:
 >
 >A) Note applies only if test fails.
 >
 >B) Note applies regardless of toolset.
 >
 >These features are not mutually exclusive; either or both can apply.
 >
 >I'll implement all of the above later today. They will require format
 >changes to the map file, but that shouldn't be a problem.

OK, all done and committed to CVS. See comments in 
status/win32-notes-map.txt.

--Beman