Re: [boost] Travis/Appveyor improvements for the superproject

Subject: Re: [boost] Travis/Appveyor improvements for the superproject
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-09-20 13:47:09

On 9/20/2017 9:33 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Travis and Appveyor tests for the Boost superproject have been improved 
> to automatically run the tests for the library mentioned in the commit 
> message. For example, if the message is "Update iterator from develop", 
> the corresponding CI job runs the tests of the Iterator library (among 
> other things).

When does the superproject automatically run tests for an individual 
library ? When the superproject itself gets updated, or when any given 
submodule gets updated ? I suspect the former.

> 
> This is a bit redundant if the library itself has Travis/Appveyor set 
> up, but keeping an eye on
> 
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/boostorg/boost/history
> 
> and
> 
> https://travis-ci.org/boostorg/boost/builds
> 
> can't hurt.
> 
> For example, Appveyor says that Iterator fails a test on msvc-12.0 
> (Visual Studio 2013):
> 
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/boostorg/boost/build/1.0.3744-develop
> 
> and Utility fails a test on msvc-14.0/msvc-14.1:
> 
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/boostorg/boost/build/1.0.3765-develop
> 
> 
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