Re: [boost] Tests are a mess

Subject: Re: [boost] Tests are a mess
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-11 17:20:05

David Abrahams wrote:
>> No - I asked for a pledge that if this happened in the future it
>> would be considered a bug.
>
> Whom did you you ask for a pledge?

Emil

Here is where I asked for it

http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/07/139893.php

Here is his response I got

 http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/07/139894.php

which includes the quote:

> I would ask that library authors that cannot make a similar pledge include
> a disclaimer in thier documentation and header files something on the 
> order
> of:
> ...
You can ask anything you want and you can assume anything you want
about Boost libraries, but the fact is that they do change and
occasionally breaking changes are introduced, which may or may not be
regressions.

which I took to at face value and acted accordingly.

Robert Ramey