Re: [boost] Modularizing explicit-failures-markup.xml

Subject: Re: [boost] Modularizing explicit-failures-markup.xml
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-10-01 17:50:57

AMDG

On 10/01/2017 11:10 AM, Daniel James via Boost wrote:
> 
> I'm looking into implementing a mechanism for updating
> explicit-failures-markup.xml without updating the super project. My
> basic idea is that modules can have a
> 'status/explicit-failures-markup.xml' file, and I'll write a script to
> update the super project file from modules. It will have the same
> format as the super project file, so can just copy and paste the
> relevant parts into your module.
> 
> Does that sound okay? It might be better if the regression scripts
> handled this themselves, but I'm not sure if anyone would be available
> to implement that.
> 

  Once you have a script for merging the markup files,
hooking it into the regression scripts should be trivial.
Alternately, the code that actually loads
explicit-failure-markup.xml should be safe to use with
multiple files (It's just a matter of tracking them all down).

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe