on Fri Aug 15 2008, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

David Abrahams wrote:

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on Fri Aug 15 2008, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

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Why can't the packaging process be automatized, making it fully reproducible ? Trying to increase the amount of tests run on the final package attacs the problem from the wrong end, IMO.

reproducability != correctness.

I agree that automation is a good idea, but it might also be a good idea to test the results of that automation, neh?

Indeed. My point, however, was that I would *first* automatize, *then* validate. The point of reproducibility is to cut down on the amount of (repeated) validation you have to do afterwards, no ? :-)

Makes sense to me. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com