Edward Diener wrote:
The regression test matrix appears to be tests by different testers of different libraries, and certainly not of all librariews which may or may not work for a particular compiler which Boost supports in some way. I have rarely been able to make sense of what actually does work with what compiler. Is this a failing of mine to understand the matrix ? Is the matrix really a complete record of all Boost supported compilers and their tests against all libraries which ostensibly support a compiler ?
Yes, the matrix is a complete record of all libraries against all supported compilers. If you look at http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/user/summary... for example, you'll see that the program options library is marked "unusable" for VC 6 and 7.0. This means that the library does not support these compilers. For bind, there's a green 'details' link that leads to http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/user/bind.ht... where one can see that the three test failures on VC 6 are marked as "expected failures". Following the first of them to http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_33_0/user/output/... shows a note at the top that this test failure doesn't render the library unusable.
What if there is no regression test of a particular compiler against a particular library ? Does that mean that the library does not support the compiler, or might it mean that nobody has submitted a test of that library with that compiler ?
The compiler is not supported by Boost.