"David Abrahams"
on Thu May 03 2007, "Gennadiy Rozental"
wrote: Hi,
I do plan to attend this session. I've got some ideas on the subject. I pitched them while ago once. And I still believe that the synchronization is the root of all evils. The only real solution to break this deadloop is independent libraries versioning. This should resolve both out release and testing issues (which are closely connected IMO)
INDEPENDENT LIBRARY VERTIONING
I just want to point out that the BoostCon "Testing Boost" sprint is about our testing processes and infrastructure, not about the structure of Boost itself and its release process. I agree that the latter is an important topic and I hope we'll discuss it at BoostCon, but it's a much tougher issue (to form consensus on, and to solve) than is the topic of the sprint. In order to ensure that the sprint is successful,
I strongly request that in Rene's session, we concentrate on the topic at hand.
While in general I agree, IMO discussing how we are going to test the libraries before deciding how the process is organized in general is like putting cart in front of a horse. Part of my proposition directly affect the way testing needs to be organized. Gennadiy.