Re: [Boost-build] v2 Python toolset doesn't faithfully reproduce v1

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-23 11:43:34

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
> Now that I look at explicit-failures-markup.xml, I'm reconsidering.
> 
> Aleksey checked in an "expected failure" mark for each and every test
> with intel-7.1-linux and intel-8.0-linux. 

 The note says:
> 
>                 The library is <a
>                 href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/110420">known
>                 to work</a> in this configuration. The failures are
>                 due to configuration issues of the particular testing
>                 environment these tests have been run in. The
>                 regression runners and library developers are aware of
>                 the problem and plan to fix it for the next release.
> 
> I don't know which developers Aleksey meant when he said they are
> "aware of the problem and plan to fix it for the next release," but I
> think we need to determine what those failures were and what the
> planned fixes were to be, and almost certainly we need to get this
> markup out of the XML file, because it's just masking problems.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> www.boost-consulting.com
> 
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Aleksey Gurtovoy
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