Re: [boost] [Release 1.34] Supported Compilers - another view

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-31 14:21:17

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:874q3kz0am.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> It damn annoying to find that
>> all my tests suddenly fail on msvc because of a change
>> in the test system.  Oh I'm sure it was announced somewhere
>> and I don't care - its annoying none the less.  Now what
>> am I to do?  Stop supporting msvc? Shouldn't that be my
>> decision?  Re write my tests to not use boost test?  I don't
>> want to do that!
>
> It might be a good idea anyway.  In my experience, Boost.Test is
> overpowered for the purposes of Boost regression testing, and on
> Windows it tends to stand in the way of debugging by "handling"
> crashes as exceptions rather than invoking JIT or the debugger.

And as we discussed this is just a default that could be easily changed for 
manual testing (for example by defining environment variable if you tired to 
pass cla every time).

Gennadiy