Re: [boost] Which Boost libraries support which compilers/versions

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-29 15:25:20

David Abrahams wrote:
> on Sun Jul 29 2007, Edward Diener <eldiener-AT-tropicsoft.com> wrote:

> We all know it's a problem, but nobody has yet designed and
> implemented a solution.  Perhaps you'd be willing to take up the
> charge?

Well, I have the same problem.

Here is what I'm doing to address it.

I'm making some shell scripts to run the boost build / test on the current 
configuration.

This is basically a slightly modfied/updated version of runtest.sh (written 
by Rene Rivera) found in the tools/regression directory.  The object of this 
new script isn not to download and test the latest version in the CVS system 
on the local environment.  Its aim will be to validate the current boost 
installation by running all the test and generated a local table - similar 
to the compiler status table.  This gives me what I need.  That it is it 
tells me that the local combination of boost version, libraries, compiler 
and operating system works (or does not work) as it should.

I believe that every user of boost in a production environmentment should 
undergoe this process.  (Actually, a similar process should be undertaken 
with all software. Commercial software usually includes a series of tests 
and demos that the user can can run to verify that everything works as it is 
expected to.

I need this now because I have a customer with several platforms with 
different combinations of os/compiler versions. Its unrealistic to expect 
that boost testing process to produce such information.  Even if it did - 
there is no guarentee the the test conditions are identical.

Robert Ramey