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Subject: Re: [Boost-cmake] Regression Test Reporting
From: troy d. straszheim (troy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-02 10:40:56


troy d. straszheim wrote:
> One thing that has changed since that discussion is
> tests-as-first-class-targets: for boost, at least, the extra cost
> in generation time and time-to-build is prohibitive, and the
> regex-selection style of ctest (-R mylibrary) is more straightforward
> and functional. (You get situations where you want to specify that certain
> tests are run in order, and doing this with make-target-dependencies is
> a big
> hassle).

I forgot to include that this is my current opinion... this isn't implemented
in boost, and there are loose ends to think about there, like compile_fail type
tests. I've implemented it elsewhere though and like it.

-t


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