on Wed Nov 26 2008, "vicente.botet" <vicente.botet-AT-wanadoo.fr> wrote:
5.1.2 Include each couple of header files in both orders
Testing all possible orderings seems impractical. I could be wrong of course...
It's definitely impractical to test every possible pair. Even if it is restricted to stay within a single library, this would be many thousands of compilations...
Have someone measure the time that it will take already? Can this kind of test runed once a week?
I don't know very well bjam, but can the following variation of you Jamfile compile in include_all_rev the same files than in include_all but included in reverse order. If yes at least this test could improve the test coverage.
I think you may be missing my point. This sounds like one of those "really good ideas" that comes with a high resource overhead: machines, administration, software infrastructure, and communication bandwidth all come to mind. If you want such a proposal to be impactful, it's really helpful to handle those kinds of concerns up-front by proposing solutions (including volunteering to manage the implementation of the proposal). Otherwise, someone like me, whose attention is already spread too thinly, tends to tune the proposal out because it just seems too impractical. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com