Re: [boost] The Release Manager's Point of View

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-04 19:07:40

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Jun 4, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

>>> * We don't test release versions, even though this is the most used
>>> variant by users.
>> We shouldn't be doing this at all IMO. NO testing during release.
> 
> I believe Rene means the "release" variant, i.e., with optimizations  
> turned on. This also saves a *ton* of disk space. Also, testing with  
> shared libraries rather than dynamic saves a lot of disk space.

Yes, I mean building and testing with optimizations on. Most likely we 
would want to build the profile variant so that we could get both 
optimizations and debug symbols. But that introduces the large disk 
space requirements again. My point is that we currently *only* test what 
is useful to library authors. And we essentially give users the cold 
shoulder.

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