Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [mpl] [build] [testing] Merge pull requests

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [mpl] [build] [testing] Merge pull requests
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-12 02:41:35

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Sep 18, 2014, at 11:25 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> On 9/18/2014 11:54 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
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>>> On Sep 17, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>>> There were a lot of discussions about MPL recently, and I created a few pull
>>>> requests to address issues:
>>>
>>> I’d like to revert the MPL PR that caused our testing problems, and the one Edward just applied.  It was wrong of me to commit the PR without any testing.  There’s been some list discussion but my overall concern is that we can’t clearly explain why some develop testers are broken and others are working okay.  The commit completely broke Darwin, Debian, FreeBSD, QNX and Windows.  But what’s really worrying is that some RHEL testers are still merrily cycling while other RHEL testers are broken.  Same for Ubuntu, some are cycling okay while some are broken.  I think it’s too risky to apply a patch when we, honestly I, don’t understand why this is happening.
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>>> While we could apply Andrey’s PR (below) I’m afraid that may mask real underlying problems that we may not find out about until this hits master, or worse, users.  I’ll work with Andrey to get the MPL changes applied, perhaps in smaller PRs.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have concerns.
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>> Is not the pull request just in the developer branch ? In that case you could leave the pull request as is and try to solve it without affecting the master branch at all.
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> I’d prefer to revert and ensure all develop testers come back online.  Then can we work on figuring out how to apply these changes and test them to ensure no breakage *before* we push them into develop.

Are there any news about this? Is someone looking into the problem
with Boost.Build?