Re: [boost] Boost regression notification (2006-10-08 [RC_1_34_0])

From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-08 20:30:58

[Douglas Gregor]
> 1570 failures in 26 libraries (1519 are from non-broken
> platforms)

[Arkadiy Vertleyb]
> Now, this looks scary, onless one figures out that there is
> an error in interpreting regression results, and only 51
> failures seem to be from non-broken platforms :-)

[Douglas Gregor]
> The wording is intended to scare developers into fixing bugs
> :)

Arkadiy's point is not that the 1570 looks scary, but that it should say
either:

"1570 failures in 26 libraries (51 are from non-broken platforms)"

or:

"1570 failures in 26 libraries (1519 are from broken platforms)"

The summary incorrectly says that the broken-number is the
non-broken-number. This error is not repeated in the per-library results
("serialization (8 of 986 failures are from non-broken platforms)").

STL