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

Subject: Re: [boost] [test] Trunk broken: What happened to test_exec_monitor?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-05 07:36:31

on Wed Oct 05 2011, Olaf van der Spek <ml-AT-vdspek.org> wrote:

> 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?

Yes

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