Re: [boost] Volunteers needed to run regression test reporting

Subject: Re: [boost] Volunteers needed to run regression test reporting
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-17 17:34:42

AMDG

On 01/17/2014 02:25 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 1/17/2014 11:56 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> 
>> We can mitigate that by having several people running the reports. I've
>> written some docs, so it shouldn't be too hard, although right now it
>> does
>> require a *nix-like system. I've been running them on a Windows host
>> using
>> a VirtualBox virtual Ubuntu system, and have found it to be easy.
> 
> So running regression tests for Windows compiler, ie msvc, must be done
> on a virtual machine hosted under Linux/Unix ? Or do you mean that your
> docs only apply to running regression tests under a *nix system ?
> 

Beman isn't talking about the tests themselves,
but about the tool that collects the results
from the test runners and generates the html
pages that you see on the Boost website.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe