Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #12531: --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'

Subject: Re: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #12531: --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-10-18 21:57:57

#12531: --run_test in Boost 1.62 does not accept test names which contain ':'
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  Reporter:  Igor Akhmetov <igor.akhmetov@…>  |      Owner:  renficiaud
      Type:  Bugs                             |     Status:  assigned
 Milestone:  To Be Determined                 |  Component:  test
   Version:  Boost 1.62.0                     |   Severity:  Problem
Resolution:                                   |   Keywords:
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Comment (by renficiaud):

 Bugs are always unfortunate.

 For the story, this colon was introduced to address the issue #11859 in
 order to be able to specify several test cases from the associated
 environment variable. There is not so many chars left in fact, as we
 should not interfere with the terminal command line parsing (& ; * % $ |
 are not possible choices, @ ! + - / are already in use).

 At that time, : seemed to me the best choice as I (wrongly) thought we
 cannot generate test names with :.

 Apart from escaping or protecting with surrounding "", I do not see any
 good solution. If surrounding with "" would do for you, let's just go for
 that.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12531#comment:4>
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