Re: [boost] serialization:question regarding test

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-13 04:43:10

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:

> Robert Ramey writes:

>>a) in order for libraries to be built for Borland and VC 6.0 which don't
>>support Spirit 1.8 but do support spirit 1.6, the Jamfile checks for the
>>environmental variable SPIRIT_ROOT and if found presumes it contains the
>>root of the directory where Spirit 1.6 is located.  This has worked well in
>>my local environment.  An environment which tests this library for these
>>compilers will also need to have Spirit 1.6 installed and have the
>>SPIRIT_ROOT variable set accordingly.  I don't know who I should inform
>>about this.
> 
> 
> Theoretically, it would be possible to arrange (at least for us here at Meta),
> but I'm afraid we don't have time for this. I'd suggest you to mark the 
> library as unusable on VC 6.0 with a comment explaining the situation in 
> detail.

Hi Aleksey,

I'd appreciate this a lot if we could do this sometime in the future.
Would it also be possible to have Spirit 1.6.x take part in the daily
regressions? It would be nice if I could check in Spirit 1.6.x in a
separate directory. This will ensure that the version will remain
compatible with current and future boost versions. I'm afraid Spirit
1.6.x will still be with us for a long time.

Tell me if this is like asking for the moon :-P

Thanks!
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net