Re: [boost] [1.33.0] Final release schedule

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-28 10:40:08

On Jul 28, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Robert Ramey wrote:

> These particular ones are due to the fact that I've never been able to 
> force
> the order of tests with bjam.  Those tests attempt to load archives 
> which
> haven't been created yet.  If one doesn'st clean out the $TMPDIR, these
> errors don't occur the next time.  Using the markup to indicate - fails
> sometimes resulted in a misleading marking of the passing tests (If I
> remember correctly) so I just had to leave it.  That is, the "fail" are
> really artifacts of the bjam implementation.

Perhaps after the release you should consider combining the load & save 
tests for each archive/type combination into a single test. Just dump 
the file and then read it back immediately.

        Doug