Frank Birbacher wrote:
Hi!
Robert Ramey schrieb:
If someone really want's to make portable_binary_archive an "officially supported archive". Then some way of testing is required. This would require generating output on one platform and reading on another. This is something that I couldn't figure out how to make BJAM do.
Well, you could just instead check whether the produced output is the same everywhere. I thought of calculating the md5 sum and checking against that. That would make a good unit test. Or am I missing something?
That's a great idea. We've been generating a test file with representative data for each of our platforms which are checked into source control. A unit test then checks all (3) files on each platform. The Md5 approach would negate the management of archive files. Thanks, Jeff Flinn