Re: [boost] boost development process / scope

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-09 12:19:12

on Mon May 07 2007, Brad King <brad.king-AT-kitware.com> wrote:

> FYI, CMake now comes with CTest which is a full DART client, so there is
> no need to install Tcl on every system anymore.  There is now also a
> DART "2" that provides much more flexible display of testing results.
> IIRC, the new DART requires only java and a web server on the server
> side.  CTest supports submission to both DART versions.
>
> Here is the DART "2" dashboard for CMake itself:
>
> http://dart.na-mic.org/CMake/Dashboard/
>
> and for a much larger project more on boost's scale:
>
> http://dart.na-mic.org/Insight/Dashboard/

Hmm, well I hope the presentation is tunable because it doesn't look
at first glance like what I see there would be very useful for Boost
in the form it is presented.

> CMake now also comes with CPack which creates configuration files for
> native packaging tools.  The 2.4 CPack version is beta but is already
> good enough to package the CMake release itself.
>
> Together CMake, CTest and CPack provide a full development, testing, and
> distribution tool suite.  They all come in a single installer.

Wow.  Any chance you can make it to our testing sprint at BoostCon?

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