Re: [Boost-cmake] Attn: Bitten hackers. Discussion about transforming CTest output format

From: Doug Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-22 15:11:09

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:41 PM, troy d. straszheim <troy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Doug Gregor wrote:

>> Are they willing to accept patches that reduce the current level of
>> coupling, and/or do some of this work? We can't do anything that would
>> result in forking Bitten or taking over maintainership of major
>> changes.
>
> Understood, agreed.  If it indeed turns out that bitten isn't easily refactored/patched,
> how about putting something together that integrates *directly* with CTest.
> Maybe the kitware guys would have some interest.  I have to guess that I'm not the only one who
> doesn't care for the java-Dart monolith.

Kitware is building (and using) CDash, which integrates directly with CTest:

  http://www.cdash.org/

Like Bitten, the CDash interface is totally wrong for a collection of
libraries like Boost. We would have to do some serious interface
upgrades either way.

If Bitten doesn't work out, CDash is an alternative. I've done local
setups of CDash with Boost-CMake submitting to it and it was
relatively painless. But, I don't want to seriously propose it as an
alternative until I've done a significant amount of work to improve
the interface, because I *hate* when people throw out software
suggestions without doing any work themselves :)

  - Doug