Re: [boost] required toolsets

Subject: Re: [boost] required toolsets
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-28 11:20:32

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Ben Pope <benpope81_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 28/03/13 12:03, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>
>> AMDG
>>
>> The list of required toolsets in explicit-failures-markup.xml
>> is out-dated.  Therefore, if no one objects, I propose
>> setting it to the following:
>>
>> msvc-10.0, msvc-11.0, gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7,
>> clang-darwin-11, clang-darwin-4.2.1,
>> clang-linux-3.1, clang-linux-3.2,
>> gcc-mingw-4.7, gcc-mingw-4.6
>>
>
> I'm guessing that would look like:
>
> Linux:
>    gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7,
>    clang-linux-3.1, clang-linux-3.2,
> OSX:
>    clang-darwin-11, clang-darwin-4.2.1
> Windows:
>    msvc-10.0, msvc-11.0, gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7
>    cc-mingw-4.7, gcc-mingw-4.6
>

Some supported toolset rules that have been mostly implicit in the past: a)
the toolset must appear in the release test results and trunk only toolset
can't be included, b) they must have demonstrated reliable and consistent
testing cycles, and c) only release version of toolsets qualify. Usually if
they violate (b) they tend to get removed from release testing (i.e.
someone asks them to stop testing them or test more frequently). So I would
modify the list as:

Linux:
   gcc-4.6, gcc-4.7,
   clang-linux-3.1
OSX:
   clang-darwin-11, clang-darwin-4.2.1, darwin-4.2.1
Windows:
   gcc-mingw-4.7, gcc-mingw-4.6
   msvc-8.0

Yes, msvc-8.0 is currently the *only* msvc compiler consistently tested on
the release branch! So if we want the modern version of msvc compilers
someone needs to step up and volunteer to support *release* testing on the
msvc modern compilers!!!

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