On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:11:58 -0500, Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy@meta-comm.com> wrote:
Gennaro Prota writes:
About the regression test mess, dynamic_bitset is not listed in the report, but has some "red" failures
A "red" failure indicates a regression from the last-known-good release, whether the toolset is marked as required or not, so it's perfectly normal to have these present on the library's page and absent from the Issues page.
Ok. I realized this afterwards.
on compilers which I don't think were tested before (which I've discovered by chance);
Which compilers, and why do you think they weren't tested before?
Not sure, but I don't remember dynamic_bitset<> being regression tested on CW 8.3.
and cases where the same compiler passes or not depending on the test runner (e.g. VC7).
That happens, and when it does, it needs investigation.
Aleksey, regression tests really need some attention. I understand that they are provided as a courtesy, that they don't come for free and all that, but definitely they need attention. I've just fixed a hardcoded cvs repository link which still referred to the old cvsroot, so that no link to source files actually worked. That's alarming, and it's not the test runner's fault: it either means no one follows the links or they give for granted that they do not work. Both are bad signals, IMHO. -- [ Gennaro Prota, C++ developer for hire ]