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

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [graph] Sync develop with master?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-09 22:37:06

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>

But you had to type it in some form at some point the way it was before
also, right?

b2 "--limit-tests=graph|graph_parallel|mpi”
>
> Could we add support for a comma separator, or change the vertical
> separator to a comma?
>

Sure, I could add a comma separator. Would it also help if I added an
inverse? i.e. an "--exclude-tests" option?

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