Re: [Boost-testing] Transition to boostorg/boost/regression repo.

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Transition to boostorg/boost/regression repo.
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-11-11 23:43:49

On 2014-11-11 4:28 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Jim Bell <Jim_at_[hidden] 
> <mailto:Jim_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
>
>     On 2014-11-10 11:14 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>
>         ...
>
>         I'm looking for some of the regular testers to switch over to
>         the new code for testing. The procedure is simple:
>
>         1. Start from a fresh testing location (or clear out the old
>         one) as the downloaded dir names have changed to: "boost_bb",
>         "boost_regression", "boost_regression_src", "boost_root", and
>         "results".
>
>         2. Either manually download, or change your automation script,
>         to the new run.py location at:
>         <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/boostorg/regression/develop/src/run.py>.
>
>         3. Run your testing as usual (I hope).
>
>         Report any issues ASAP.
>
>
>     Questions:
>     1. Do we run both master and develop branches?
>
>
> Whatever you want on that. As which branch you test is independent of 
> the testing script versions.
>
>     2. Do we need to update bjam/b2?
>
>
> Testing builds it's own b2. So it doesn't matter.

Some platforms give trouble building it, so I use a pre-built one. I'm 
betting it'll be fine.