Stefan Seefeld wrote:
Markus Schöpflin wrote:
Stefan Seefeld wrote:
That doesn't explain why there were no failures prior to the 1.34 release. Are the current failures all on newly added platforms ? What is different now from before 1.34 ? It still works on my test platform (COMSOFT), I'm using python 2.4.1. Probably the python version used by the regression test runners have changed?
That's entirely possible (I read that Python's handling of default search paths has changed on Windows with version 2.5).
This brings up a point I have been making for a long time:
Can the testing / regression harness be fixed to report more parameters that affect the development / runtime environment ? In this particular case: the python version is certainly a critical piece of information, but it doesn't appear to be listed in the platform description.
Another possibility is to write something like config_info, except for Python, and always display the results. For sample config_info output, see http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/Caleb%20Epste... --Beman