Re: [Boost-testing] renamed tests - white rows in the matrix

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-22 06:29:02

Tobias Schwinger wrote:

> Before setting up a page for this one, I'd probably consider adding
> 
>     # Remove .test files older than 20 days automatically
>     find $boost_root -type f -name '*.test' -ctime +20 -exec rm {} ';'

I think this is a bad idea. The point of running tests incrementally is 
*not* to run tests that don't need to be run.

It would be cool if the build system would be able to automatically 
remove results for tests that don't exist anymore. However, I doubt this 
would be easy to implement, if possible at all.

Another idea would be to add rules for removing old results to the 
Jamfile whenever a test is removed or gets renamed. I guess this would 
be implementable. When a test gets removed or renamed then the 
maintainer edits the Jamfile, anyway, so adding that remove rule 
wouldn't be too much of additional burden.

> to run_tests.sh. BTW. 'find' and the options used above are "SysV primordial soup" so it should be portable to pretty much any *NIX environment.

It might be more important that find is also defined by POSIX.

Regards,
m
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