[Boost-testing] Regression runners instructions broken?

From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-17 08:28:40

I tried to set up a regression run on a machine of mine (win2000). I 
tried to follow the instructions from:

http://www.boost.org/tools/regression/xsl_reports/runner/instructions.html

This is what I found:

1) ---- The link to
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/boost/boost/tools/regression/xsl_reports/runner/regression.py

referenced from the instruction:

Download regression driver regression.py from _here_

does not work, the server times out.

2) ---- So I skipped this step and took a regression.py from my working 
copy from: RC_1_34_0\tools\regression\xsl_reports\runner
and put it on a drive with plenty of free space:

X:\boost-regression\regression.py

I did not put bjam or one of the other tools into this directory.
I opened a cmd shell on this directory.
I issued the command:
     python regression.py --runner=speedsnail --toolsets=msvc-7.1 2>&1 | 
tee speedsnail-HEAD-msvc-7.1.log

This ended after a very short run. Eventually I figured out that a line 
in user-config.jam was missing:
using python : 2.5 : "C:\Programme\Python25" ;

I had to dig this from peeking into bjam.log and the mailing lists. 
Would it be possible to put a (commented out) placeholder into 
user-config.jam to make this less painful? Also a error message telling, 
that this is a requirement for regression.py to run would be nice.

I restarted everything from fresh.

This finally started the run.

Roland