Re: [Boost-users] [BoostCon07][testing] Session reminder.

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-04 11:46:17

(sorry, dropped the cc by mistake)

David Abrahams wrote:

> Okay, here are some issues I think ought to be solved, in no
> particular order, some (much) more important than others:

[...]

* No way for a test to fail with a "skipped" status (gray box).

This is similar to

> * no mechanism for communicating that tests are known not to work on
>  some platform (toolset+os) to the build system, and so avoid
>  building them

but it can rely on Boost.Config macros, which may not be easily accessible 
to the build system.