Re: [Boost-testing] Merging trunk/tools into branches/release/tools?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-14 13:52:17

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> At what point do we merge trunk/tools into branches/release/tools?
>>
>> Because a lot of improvements and bug fixes have been made in various 
>> tools, I'd like to do that right away.
>>
>> That does mean that any subsequent changes to the trunk/tools that 
>> should go in 1.35.0 will have to be merged.
>>
>> Comments?
> 
> Hm... We don't need to merge. The point of the changes I'm doing to 
> regression.py is to allow one to use the trunk tools to test any branch 
> (with the one limitation of having to use Boost.Filesystem from the 
> tested branch).

But we want to test the tools on the release branch! How else will we 
know they work? We have to merge them sooner or later, if they are to go 
in the 1.35.0 release.

--Beman