Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Build unit test bugs.

From: Jurko Gospodnetiæ (jurko_for_boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-05 05:38:07

   Hi.

> If I understand correctly, regexp based matching was introduced just
> so that you don't need to explicitly pass the right toolset name to
> tests. Do you think that's still needed?

   From what I've seen so far it seems that globbing (my mistake in the 
previous post - these are not actually full regular expressions but unix 
style glob syntax for specifying file/folder paths) was introduced you 
would not need to specify the exact target folder (including all the 
feature specific folders).

   You did not have to specify the toolset before either, but instead 
you specify '$toolset' in the path and it gets expanded into the proper 
toolset name using Tester.adjust_name().

   What is new is that it now gets expanded into the name of the toolset 
and and asterisk, e.g. 'msvc*' or 'gcc*'.

   One other thing I noticed is that the asterisk gets appended in two 
places in code (Tester.adjust_name() and Tester.expect_content()) and I 
am not quite sure this is ok. Perhaps someone more knowledgable could 
take a look at this.

> 
>> P.S.
>>    Can anyone suggest a good Python IDE for Windows? I can't seem to 
>> find one to debug in easily... :-) I'd like to work on this but my 
>> current tool chain makes this quite painful. :-)))
> 
> I'm not using any IDE, I just put print statements in python code ;-)

   :-)) Well.. that's nice when you already know the code... but I find 
it extremely useful when researching new code to be able to place 
breakpoint and see the current stack and possibly look around at 
different variables. And, since its 'getting to know your surroundings' 
kind of research you don't really know what you're looking for until you 
get there... :-) In that scenario it 'too painful' to have to restart 
the whole process every time you decide to look at something else or 
look at the stack information in some neighboring function to see where 
it gets called from...

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetiæ