Christopher Cambly <ccambly@ca.ibm.com> writes:
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote on 02/25/2006 06:04:28 AM:
Hi Chris and Michael
I note at http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS- HEAD/developer/summary.html there are no results for VisualAge C++. We're generally reluctant to apply patches to support any given compiler if there isn't someone running tests, so we can verify that it makes things better and that we haven't introduced regressions. Michael told me in Lillehammer that y'all were running the tests with the results upload step disabled. If that's the case, you could just start uploading the results to us on a regular basis and it would be much easier to support your compiler.
Thanks,
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
Currently we are only running the Boost CVS line with our development line which is an unreleased compiler. IBM has a strict policy about publishing external(publicly viewable) numbers with unreleased compilers.
This is easily fixed. We can use our currently released V8 compiler for publishing results for the Boost CVS line. That said, our machine resources are at a premium. How often would we be required to provide results?
Just as an observation, the Boost results reporting system seems to change radically with each new release. I myself have not yet previewed the CVS line but from what Michael has told me it has undergone some changes yet again. We typically spend a fair amount of time debugging the Boost results reporting mechanism on our platforms. This can make our results reporting rather hit or miss... more often than not we seem to miss.
Chris, Please post your replies to the Boost list; some of your questions are not decideable by me alone. Thanks -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com