Re: [Boost-testing] Disabling Incremental Testing

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-28 21:54:18

on Wed Mar 28 2007, Thomas Witt <witt-AT-acm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In my opinion the recent flurry of issues regarding outdated results has 
> shown that the incremental testing support in our regression test suite 
> is not there yet. To many usability issues. We absolutely need to 
> improve the reliability of our regression tests. I therefor ask for 
> incremental testing to be disabled and removed from regression.py
>
> Comments?

IMO that would be bad, and I don't think this has anything to do with
incremental testing.  Old results will hang around unless updated or
removed whether or not incremental testing is enabled.

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