Re: Do we still want develop branch?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-11-12 01:19:52

On 11/11/23 3:12 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>> If can test the feature branch of one library X against the master
>> branch of all the other libraries before me merge the feature branch
>> into the master, then no "integration testing" should be necessary.
> 
> This doesn't work if you want to take advantage of a new feature
> in library Y that hasn't been merged to master yet, because it's still
> in development.

I can't see why one would ever want to do that.  Who injects untested 
code from other libraries into his own library- or application for that 
matter.  That's just asking for trouble, not to mention chaos.

> 
> (It also doesn't work well if your change breaks other libraries. They'll
> only know it after you merge to master.)

Right. I acknowledged that above.  That's what the current test matrix does.

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