Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [graph] Sync develop with master?

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [graph] Sync develop with master?
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-09 21:47:07

> On Aug 9, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 9, 2016, at 5:21 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Di, 2016-06-28 at 17:32 +0000, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
>>>> The recent changes to the testing infrastructure has slowed this down
>>>> as it’s now less-convenient to test that it was previously
>>> 
>>> Is this something different than this?
>>> https://github.com/boostorg/graph#running-tests

>> 
>> Related.  I used to be able to edit status/Jamfile and remove all but a
>> handful of libraries that I’d then test all together (so I could for
>> example, test Graph, GraphParallel, MPI, etc.. all at once).  The currently
>> testing model doesn’t easily support testing multiple Boost libraries at
>> one time and this slows me down.
> 
> Did you see my response at the time you brought this up on the command line
> options that let you control that? (i.e. the --limit-tests= option) Just
> wondering as I'm willing to add support for what you need if what's there
> is not enough.

Hi Rene,

Well, it’s just more typing than I want to do though it’s fine for 3 libraries, it doesn’t scale well for, say, 30 libraries.

b2 "--limit-tests=graph|graph_parallel|mpi”

Could we add support for a comma separator, or change the vertical separator to a comma?

N.