Re: [Boost-testing] Branch independent testing?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-13 15:27:28

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> I noticed your commit "Partial rework of regression scripts for branch 
>> independent testing."
>>
>> Can I do anything to help with this work? I'd really like to get testing 
>> started on the release branch, and would be happy to do the report 
>> generation here.
> 
> I'm almost done with the changes... But I will need help in testing them 
> :-)

Let me know. I can start right away.

  ...One think I'm kinda struggling with right now is having to build
> process_jam_log as it depends on Boost.Filesystem. Hence it makes 
> creating an independent set of test tools hard. At the end getting rid 
> of PJL is ideal, but we aren't there yet.

Having bjam generate the xml files directly would be a big step forward 
in reliability. But I'd prefer we get 1.35.0 out the door before 
investing any time in that.

--Beman