[Boost-testing] Old results/broken FTP server?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-20 21:48:58

Looking at the FTP server for RC-1_34_0 results, I see

-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          449102 Sep 10  1:44 Bronek2-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          639996 Sep  9  0:30 Bronek3-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         3727127 Sep  9 17:25 Bronek4-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         3333491 Sep  9  3:53 Bronek5-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          375269 Sep  5 18:32 Bronek6-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          252521 Sep  9 12:03 Bronek-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          226094 Sep 20  5:47 Caleb Epstein SunOS-5.10.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          767801 Sep 13  6:16 COMSOFT.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          447739 Sep 19 23:54 HP-UX aCC6 V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         2903258 Sep 20  6:17 Huang-WinXP-x64.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          733176 Sep 20  4:44 Huang-WinXP-x64_32.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         1630276 Sep 15 13:32 Martin Wille V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          916506 Sep 17  4:54 Martin Wille x86_64 V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         4242789 Sep 20 18:57 metacomm.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group           96780 Sep 20  6:00 metacomm2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         1654624 Sep 20 11:57 metacomm-v2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          738188 Sep 20  6:44 OSL2-V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          252035 Sep 20  4:44 OSL4-V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          202449 Sep 20  1:39 OSL-V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         3023132 Sep 20 19:03 QNX630-V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          298332 Jul 28 10:48 RSI Droid2K V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group         1308629 Sep 20 18:46 RudbekAssociates-V2.zip
-rwxrwxrwx   1 owner    group          903991 Sep 20 19:44 slapeta-V2.zip

The ones from Sep 15 are woefully outdated; they're still showing
errors that I've long since fixed and would like to see dropped from
the regression report.  Surely, by that logic, Bronek[2-6]-v2.zip and
COMSOFT.zip must be intolerably old...  and "RSI Droid2K V2.zip" is
from July 28!!

 Is anyone using these results?  Have the respective testers stopped
testing?  Are their platforms/compilers going to be supported for the
release?

If not, I'd really like to kill the results off so I can begin to see
the errors I've worked so hard to eliminate actually disappear from
the reports.  It's incredibly frustrating not to be able to make
visible progress on these.

OK, I tried to make an executive decision and remove all those old
files, but all I succeeded in doing was somehow setting the
permissions on "Martin Will V2.zip" to 000.  I only used the "delete"
and "mdelete" ftp commands, so my only remaining guess is that the
meta-comm FTP server is broken :(

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com