Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta release candidate available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta release candidate available
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-05 14:09:15

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Vladimir Prus
<vladimir_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Actually, as far as Boost.Build tests are concerned, there's no particular
> emergency. Historically, those tests tend to care a lot about testing
> environment, so one better look only on gcc and msvc test results. Those
> reveal that 'print' test is failing everywhere -- which is something I've
> missed, but is not important.

Expected failures tend to hide real failures, and make it hard to tell
at a glace if a library has problems that need to be addressed. That's
why we have the markup mechanism. So please either fix the failures or
mark them up as expected.

Thanks,

--Beman