Re: [boost] Re: Filesystem test fixes for OS X release mode

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-17 00:24:20

Beman Dawes writes:
> At 03:04 PM 1/14/2005, troy d. straszheim wrote:
>
>  >I gotta say, this is really time-intensive work...  I wonder if
>  >running regressions "by default" in both debug and release mode
>  >might not be good practice... It could be better to try to catch
>  >things like this on the way in.
>
> That has been discussed, but some of the people who actually run the
> tests just don't have enough resources to double the test load.

This was not the reason why we didn't test the release configuration
for 1.32 -- it was simply too late in the process when we've tried it
and realized that the codebase needs non-trivial work for the results
to be trusted (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/110127).

>
> Seems like we need a way to partition the testing so that the load
> can be distributed. 

We already do: testing a single compiler in one configuration is well
within a reasonable amount of time (~2 hours, I think). We simply need
to call for volunteers.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering