Re: [Boost-testing] [release] Outdated vc9 testing?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-16 17:43:05

Richard Webb wrote:
> Rene Rivera <grafikrobot <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> The release results 
>> <http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/release/developer/summary.html> 
>> have the rather outdated test run for msvc-9.0. What's up with the 
>> tester? This is a rather important platform and it seems dangerous to 
>> have it stalled out in the testing.
>>
> 
> Is VC9 officially considered an 'important' platform for the 1.35 release?
> I didn't think it was, but i can do a test run on it if anyones interested in
> the results.

It isn't one of our high priority platforms for 1.35.0, but it good to 
know if there are serious problems. So, yes, go ahead and do a run if 
you can.

> Looking at those results reminds me that the Release version of random still
> contains the failure raised in the ticket @
> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1423, which was fixed in Trunk a while
> back. Is it worth merging that change into the release branch?

Yes, as long as it is stable on trunk, and can done right away.

--Beman