[boost] Re: Regression report for Releases?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-23 08:03:25

Jeff Garland writes:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:46:07 -0600, Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote
>> One advantage of a "big grid" is that when things are well (and when
>> we release, they are :), it inspires significant confidence in
>> quality and portability of the libraries. For instance, as a user, I
>> find this one is very inspiring:
>>
> http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost-regression/1_32_0/developer/summary_release.html
>
> I find this view very misleading.  It glosses over the fact that the
> developer has indicated some parts of a library may not be available
> for a particular compiler/platform.  

Well, yes, it's a developer view. My main point still applies.

> As an example, it might lead
> you to believe that all features of date_time are available on gcc
> 2.95.3 which just isn't the case.

This would have been shown in the user report, it's just, as I said
before, currently user reports are in flux and we don't have the
corresponding picture which I could post a link to.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering