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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-06 07:58:17

on Mon Jun 04 2007, "Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental-AT-thomson.com> wrote:

> "Douglas Gregor" <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:FC0BF0AD-CC21-430D-98B4-3C4FE793440F_at_osl.iu.edu...
>> On Jun 4, 2007, at 5:06 PM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>>> Every library is tested against particular set of
>>> dependencies selected by developer. But only *one* per lib. It does
>>> require
>>> additional disk space for source tree copy. I don't believe it major
>>> requirement these days.
>>
>> I thought that too, but you are wrong. One of the most common
>> failures with regression testers is that they run out of hard drive
>> space, because testing Boost... just a single tree... requires tens
>> of gigabytes.
>
> Umm.. so what? My 3 year old desktop got 300 gig. Server sytems should have 
> an access to even larger resources.

All the arguments in the world don't change reality.  We have testers
for whom the disk usage of our tests has posed a real problem.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com