Re: [Boost-testing] regression.py and --incremental

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-04 12:16:42

"Caleb Epstein" <caleb.epstein_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 2/3/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> Okay, then we still have a problem.  I cc:'d Aleksey and Misha, but I
>> don't really know who maintains that parsing software.
>>
>> FWIW, I've always maintained that parsing the logs was a fragile way
>> to get the XML and that we should write bjam rules to generate it.
>
> Finally making it possible to meaningfully run regression tests with
> -j<n> (multi-threaded)?  Sounds like a win in more ways than one.

Yeah.  But -- hello -- let's solve the immediate parsing issue first!

Who should be responding to my report?

Is it possible that my use of the path abbreviation feature, which keeps
Windows command line lengths under control, is causing this problem?

Thanks,

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