Re: [boost] VC 7.1/8.0 regression testing, call for volunteers

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-16 16:41:43

"Carl Daniel" <cpdaniel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>> Carl Daniel writes:
>>> I now have access to weekly builds of VC8 (currently testing the
>>> 7/11/2005 build!).  At the moment, it's not feasible to do boost
>>> regression testing on those builds (it's a machine at MSFT), but I
>>> could look into getting it set up.
>>
>> I think you are in a unique position w.r.t. weekly VC 8.0 builds, and
>> IMO it would be a great service to both us and the VC8 team to test
>> against those in addition to CTP/Beta 2.
>
> It looks like this might be possible - stay tuned.  It'll be mid next week 
> at best before I can do the first run (assuming things get set up).  I won't 
> be able to do them very often - perhaps only once/week because it won't be 
> possible to fully automate the process (the machine cannot make outgoing 
> connections to the internet, so I'll have to push tarballs to it, run the 
> tests, and then pull the results back.
>
> Does anyone have a set of instructions for building and running the 
> regression tests WITHOUT using Python?  Right now, that's the sticking 
> point - Python's not installed, and I'm unable to install it.  If I could 
> put together a ZIP file with all the command line tools pre-built and a 
> simple BATch file to run them, that'd be a workable solution.

Somehow if they're letting us upload, build, and run our code it seems
like it should be possible to upload, build, and run Python, no?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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