Re: [boost] [Git] Regression testing modular Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Regression testing modular Boost
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-26 10:07:24

On 12/25/2012 12:54 PM, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
> 2012/12/25 Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
>
>> On 12/17/2012 12:25 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> on Sun Dec 16 2012, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>   On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Hm.. That's barely a step :-\ ..And there's no need to branch. The
>>>> tools
>>>> already support multiple transport methods so we can just add another.
>>>> Which brings me to one of the transport methods regression testing
>>>> currently supports.. Downloading the current trunk/release as a ZIP
>>>> archive. I was hoping to use the github facility that exists for
>>>> downloading ZIPs of the repos. But unfortunately I couldn't make it
>>>> attached the contents of the indirect references to the library
>>>> subrepos.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's right, unfortunately.  However, we can get the exact URLs of the
>>> ZIP files from the GitHub API.  I've recently done some scripting with
>>> that,
>>> e.g. https://github.com/ryppl/**ryppl/blob/develop/scripts/**
>>> github2bitbucket.py#L40<https://github.com/ryppl/ryppl/blob/develop/scripts/github2bitbucket.py#L40>
>>>
>>> In fact, I think someone has coded up what's needed to make a monolithic
>>> zip here:
>>> https://github.com/quarnster/**sublime_package_control/**commit/**
>>> 9fe2fc2cad9bd2e7e1a38d7e5d4aaa**02fb2b4aea<https://github.com/quarnster/sublime_package_control/commit/9fe2fc2cad9bd2e7e1a38d7e5d4aaa02fb2b4aea>
>>>
>>
>> After looking at both of those I see no point in using the github api (or
>> additional structure data from sublime -- not totally sure where the
>> submodule info comes from in this case though) for this as it provides no
>> additional information than one can get from just parsing the ".gitmodules"
>> file.
>>
>>
>>   Hence the complexity of supporting testing with ZIPs is now a
>>>> magnitude larger as it means dealing with fetching more than a hundred
>>>> individual repos :-(
>>>>
>>>
>> Which now seems the only choice. At the tester side I will have to get the
>> boost-master archive. Then parse out the ".gitmodules" file. And get each
>> subrepo archive individually. Which increases the likelihood of failure
>> considerably.
>>
>
> If you do it manually, yes.
>
> And of course after all that, even for direct git access, recreate a
>> boost-header tree (either moving files or symlinks).
>>
>> I repeat.. More testing complexity :-(
>
>
> Again: if you do it manually.

OK.. What's is the not manual way to do this without having git?

> Absolutely! Boost should continue to provide monolithic packages. And these
> packages need to be tested.
> What we want to modularize is the development. Not the package that we
> provide to end users.

Right.. And hence this thread about moving the testing infrastructure to 
the github base. Note.. At this point I only really care about the 
implementation practicalities. Because as it is, there's a rather small 
chance of getting all this working for the target dates.

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