Re: [boost] [test] Trunk broken: What happened to test_exec_monitor?

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] Trunk broken: What happened to test_exec_monitor?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-05 06:50:51

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:37 AM, John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something, that model doesn't entirely solve these
> problems, we'd have a situation where:
>
> * Everyone tests independently against the last release, and everything on
> it's own looks great.
> * A change that removes features gets merged to release and.... oops now the
> release branch is broken.
>
> So we'd need some kind of integration testing as well....

Some projects test an update before that updates gets merged (into
trunk or release) with build farms. Can't Boost do the same?

Olaf