Re: [Boost-users] One small step for mankind - was Re: What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] One small step for mankind - was Re: What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-29 17:02:34

Robert, great questions.  Could you post them to the boost developers'
list?  They really don't belong here.

Thanks.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Robert Ramey <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> In the interest of moving toward a better modularization of boost
> and decoupling of libraries, I would like to make a suggestion:
>
> Can we change library testing so that each library is tested against the
> current release branch of all the other libraries?
>
> When I test on my own machine, I don't test against the trunk.  I
> test against the current release tree. Another way of saying this is
> that on my current machine I have my directory tree set to the
> the boost release branch.  ONLY the serialization library directories
> are set to the trunk.  So when I test on my local machine I KNOW that when I
> merge
> into the release branch I won't have any unexpected problems.
>
> a) I don't think this would be a huge change.
> b) It would better test what the user does
> c) It would isolate each library from another so that
> errors in the trunk (wild west) in one library don't impact
> on development of other libaries.
> d) It would promote decoupling of libraries.
> e) as an intermediate step, not all testers would have
> to make the change - some could use the old script.
>
> It would be a small, not too difficult step on the path
> we think we want to travel.
>
> Robert Ramey
>
>
>
>
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