Re: [boost] [Report] 2749 regressions on RC_1_34_0 (2007-01-24)

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-25 11:23:00

Hi,

Anthony Williams wrote:
> Roland Schwarz <roland.schwarz_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> There was an extensive discussion about this on the testing list a couple of
> months ago, when I started running release mode tests. Certain things break in
> release mode (compare your release mode results to the debug mode results ---
> there are lots more red boxes). The compromise we came to was that I would run
> release mode tests, but tag all the toolsets with ~release so they could be
> identified as such, and failures would not appear in the regression report
> emails.

Thanks for the summary Anthony. Roland I would like to keep this policy 
for 1.34.0, can you make the necessary changes.

> Historically, release mode tests have not been run, so release mode failures
> are not necessarily "regressions" --- the same test might have failed in
> release mode with previous boost releases.

I think release mode testing will be included for coming releases it's 
just that it's too late for 1.34.0

Thomas

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Thomas Witt
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