Re: [boost] Maintenance Guidelines wiki page (Revison 8)

Subject: Re: [boost] Maintenance Guidelines wiki page (Revison 8)
From: vicente.botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-29 16:51:09

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Watanabe" <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] Maintenance Guidelines wiki page (Revison 8)

> 
> AMDG
> 
> vicente.botet wrote:
>>> It's definitely impractical to test every possible pair.  Even if it is 
>>> restricted to stay within a
>>> single library, this would be many thousands of compilations...
>>>     
>>
>> Have someone measure the time that it will take already? 
>> Can this kind of test runed once a week?
>>   
> 
> The units library alone contains 291 public headers.
> That's 42,195 pairs to compile.  For comparison, the
> regression tests generate 23,160 targets on como--including
> making directories.

I see.  Forget my suggestion.

>> I don't know very well bjam, but can the following variation of you Jamfile compile in include_all_rev the same files than in include_all but included in reverse order. If yes at least this test could improve the test coverage.
>>   
> 
> I don't know how much that will actually help, given that the headers 
> include each other.
> I'll update the Jamfile though, as it can't hurt...

Thanks,
Vicente