Re: [boost] [1.36.0] RELEASE BRANCH OPEN FOR BUG FIXES

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 22:12:59

Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> I think Boost Exception is ready to be released but I wanted to
> confirm once again that I'm not missing something. Please bear with me
> I haven't released anything in Boost before. :)
> 
> Looking here:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues.html
> 
> There is a single msvc 8.0 failure for Boost Exception which I'm
> certain is because it's an incremental test. The library does work on
> msvc 8.

Why should an incremental test fail in this case?  If you don't know,
there's a mystery waiting to be uncovered and you shouldn't be so sure
that it's a false positive in this case.  If you do know, you should
change your test so that it can work when run incrementally.

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Dave Abrahams
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