Re: [Boost-testing] Tarball testing

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-02 15:55:49

At Tuesday 2004-11-02 13:21, you wrote:
>Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
>>1) Download the updated "regression.py" from 2) Download the archive of 
>>your choice:
>>3) Place the script and the archive in the same directory (e.g.
>>    the same one you are currently using for tests on the branch)
>>4) Modify the script command line to include '--local' option:
>>5) That's it.
>
>Three questions:
>
>1. it seems like this procedure requires running regression tests manually 
>(or at least with some tool like wget), right? What about tests I'm still 
>running in background , ie.
>python.exe regression.py "--runner=Bronek Kozicki" --tag=RC_1_32_0 
>---local=boost_1_32_0.zip 
>--toolsets=vc-7_1,mingw-3_3_1,mingw-3_4_2 >boost_regression.log 2>&1
>
>are these still useful?
>
>
>2. what about --tag=RC_1_32_0 option? Should I keep it when running this 
>"manual regression test procedure" or remove it?
>
>
>3. how often these manual regression tests should be run?

good question, how often should we do these?  more than once on a given 
download seems pointless

>Regards
>
>
>B.
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