"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> writes:
I don't think the existence of Buildbot solves all of our resource issues. I would expect only a limited number of the current regression testers will be able to install and use Buildbot -- I'm certain there will be firewall and other issues for some that just stop this from happening.
If we get a testing farm from OSL I'm sure we can get a lot of slaves there.
Plus if it takes 5 hours to run a Boost build you will still have a long delay before you find out if something is broken.
We simply have to get incremental testing working.
For most developers they would like to see a library focused rebuild, which for most could happen in minutes. As an example, since almost nothing in Boost depends on date-time it's very hard for me to break all of Boost. So rerunning all of the Boost regression for a date-time check-in is mostly a waste of resources.
Boost.Build does dependency analysis; there's no reason to re-run everything from scratch. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com