Re: [Boost-testing] broken web links (maybe)

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] broken web links (maybe)
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-18 12:30:11

Gennaro Prota wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>     [...]
>>>> I'm not sure why people keep insisting that the test results for 
>>>> www.boost.org and beta.boost.org are different. They aren't, and 
>>>> they never have been.
>>>
>>> I think it's because of this
>>>
>>>   <http://lists.boost.org/boost-testing/2008/08/5859.php>
>>>
>>> If that isn't true then nobody is understanding anything here,
>>> me included.
>>
>> To which I responded 
>> <http://lists.boost.org/boost-testing/2008/08/5862.php>.
> 
> Had a look, yes. So, if everything goes fine they are the same.
> But they've got out of sync at least once.
> 
> It's an immutable law of data processing: two copies that should
> be identical aren't.

OK, let me be clear... They aren't two copies. It's the *same* files. 
The HTML outside of the testing results may be different between the 
two, since that's the purpose of the beta site, but the test results 
themselves only exist in *one* place. Hence they can't "go out of sync".

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