Re: [boost] Libraries failing across the board.

Subject: Re: [boost] Libraries failing across the board.
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-09 14:21:05

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:24 AM, Eric Niebler <eniebler_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 07/08/2014 02:07 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> > Marshall is just a few days away from being able to put out a beta
> release
> > candidate. (And that is very good news!)
> >
> > But we still have too many libraries failing across the board on master:
> >
> > accumulators
>
> Two tests broke long ago due to some change in Boost.Random, which is
> used only by the tests. I've never found time to fix it. I could take
> these broken tests out of the matrix, if it helps.
>

Or markup the expected failures master status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
so the reports tell release managers and users what is going on.

<sigh>Someday we will have an automatic testing system that rejects changes
which break other libraries.</sigh>

>
> > proto
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I tend not to look at the tests unless I change
> something, but stuff tends to break all by itself. I'll add it to the
> work queue.
>
> \e
>
>
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