[Boost-testing] stdcxx-tests on release branch?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-07 05:48:03

Without wanting to be too pedantic (!), do we have a policy about which 
toolsets are tested on the release branch?  I'm asking because we currently 
have a large number of failures for the "stdcxx" (Apache std lib) tests. 
Whilst we certainly should be testing this on the trunk going forward, it's 
not previously been a required release platform, hence the large number of 
failures.

There are also one set of results (for msvc-8.0-stdcxx-4.2.1) that appear to 
failing almost everything and isn't even compiling the "hello world" 
config_info program: 
http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/output/msvc-8-0-stdcxx-4-2-1-boost-bin-v2-status-config_info-test-msvc-8-0-debug-stdlib-stdcxx-4-2-1-threading-multi.html

IMO this failure is made worse because the toolset used is simply called 
"msvc-8.0" so it shows up as a *required* platform, rather than a 
currently-unsupported one.  Likewise the Sunpro and gcc tests with the 
apache std lib are simply called "gcc-4.2.1" and "sun".

Apologies to the test runner for the gripe: we really do need you and 
appreciate the effort!  It's just that we also need to be able to clearly 
focus on what is and is not required for *this next release*.

Thanks, John.