[Boost-testing] Re: VC-8 failures are getting automatically listedas "expected"?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-18 07:54:58

John Maddock writes:
>> Well, if you follow the failures' links, you will see this:
>>
>>    Notes
>>
>>      This failure was present in the reference ("last-known-good")
>> release.
>>
>> IOW, these failures are gray (not yellow or red) because they are _not_
>> regressions from 1.32.
>
> Did we test VC8 with 1.32?

Sure --
http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/1_32_0/developer/regex_release.html.

FWIW, judging from the markup notes, these particular failures weren't
thoroughly researched, most likely because they weren't reproducible.

>
> Oh well, whatever, thanks,

If you would like to clear up the record and give these a fresh start
(that is, turn them yellow), you could do that by locating and
deleting the corresponding entries from
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/boost/boost/libs/expected_results.xml.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering