Re: [Boost-testing] Disabling Incremental Testing

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-29 11:55:51

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

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Wed Mar 28 2007, Thomas Witt <witt-AT-acm.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>> 
>> IMO that would be bad,
>
> Why?

Because we'll have fewer testers (some people will just stop) and it
will take too long to see the results.

>>   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.
>
> To clarify I am talking about results for tests that no longer
> exist. 

Do you think they're still in the table because of incremental
testing?  Martin tests incrementally but he doesn't have them AFAIK.

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