David Abrahams wrote:
on Tue Sep 18 2007, Vladimir Prus <ghost-AT-cs.msu.su> wrote:
I wasn't suggesting it as a way to solve problems with the release process. However, having explicit dependency declarations would probably make efficient incremental testing more practical, because we'd know exactly which libraries needed to have tests run for any change.
"Probably"?
Uh, yeah. Sarcasm isn't really necessary here.
There's no sarcasm. "Probably" also implies "not sure", and I naturally wonder whether you indeed unsure the proposed change will help with incremental testing.
The only problem with incremental testing now I know are stale results, which is quite separate.
The time it takes to run the tests is always a factor. Representing and evaluating all the dependencies in the project each time is expensive.
Unless you test a given library against pre-build pre-installed Boost, I don't see how this organization cuts down on any resources. And testing against pre-build pre-installed Boost is independent from any directory structure in SVN.
I worry that yet another round of "how to place files in SVN" discussion, will distract from real problems.
Fair enough. I'm not claiming this is urgent or even necessarily a problem-solver, so if there are more important things to discuss, please raise them and re-focus our attention.
Ok, for a start: 1. No release manager(s) is appointed. 2. No schedule, and no list of goals is published for 1.35. - Volodya