Re: [boost] [multiprecision] Huge testcase datafile in commit r79802

Subject: Re: [boost] [multiprecision] Huge testcase datafile in commit r79802
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-31 03:17:36

> My boost-commit@ mbox made my mail agent go into a nice crawl today when
> displaying the commit details for r79802.
>
> It turns out that it's about 6.3 MiB large, most of which is a massive
> 100k line test case in
> sandbox/big_number/libs/multiprecision/performance/delaunay_data.txt
>
> Will this behemoth file end up in the real repository in case of library
> acceptance, and even worse, will it end up in the deployed tarballs?

Ah, ooops, that would be me, I hadn't checked/realised the test case was 
quite that large :-(

Will try to fix this up another way.

> Are there any guidelines on keeping tests neat, or possibly generating
> performance test data if it's excessively huge?

No, except be a good neighbor and possibly don't do what I did!

> While in the discussion, has there been any thoughts of separating
> documentation from the tree, and/or having codegen of the source files
> that are clearly generated (vector200.hpp, etc.) in the build tree?
>
> It's very straining on disk space to have multiple Boost trees lying
> around, particularly if you're working in some kind of homedir
> environment.

Understood, John.