Re: [boost] regression results for the release?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-21 02:15:08

on Tue May 20 2008, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>> http://www.boost.org/development/testing.html quoth:
>>>
>>>   Will all Boost libraries work with your compiler?  Unfortunately, the
>>>   answer is "it depends". See the regression testing results to see
>>>   exactly what works and what doesn't.
>>>
>>> But when I "see the regression testing results," all I see are results
>>> for the trunk and the release branch.  If I'm an ordinary user, I'm
>>> using the 1.35.0 _release_.  Do those libraries work with my compiler?
>> 
>> Noted. One of the pushes for 1.36.0 will be to rewrite the release 
>> procedures, and then actually follow them.
>
> We can still get the 1.35.0 results. We just need volunteers to run the 
> regression results against 'tags/release/1_35_0'. And if we have those 
> results, I could turn around and generate the expected_results.xml.

Yes, please. I was never very comfortable with the fact that we dropped
testing for so many platforms at version 1.35, but to not offer a
testing report for the actual release seems totally unacceptable to me.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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