On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Antony Polukhin <antoshkka@gmail.com> wrote:
2011/6/29 Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org>:
The following are failing on critical platforms (Darwin/Linux/Windows with recent GCC or VC++ releases): conversion
All the versions of VC++ fail the lexical_cast_loopback_test. It is a known for years issue and there is some work to resolve this bug, but the bugfix will not be ready soon (I hope to resolve this in version 1.48 or 1.49). If it is required, I can add <toolset name="msvc-10.0*"/> to <mark-failure> section of <test name="lexical_cast_loopback_test"> with some comment. But do we need this cosmetic patch in version 1.47?
Neither the release managers nor ordinary users can possibly know for each library what issues are being worked on, what tests are expected to fail, or whether a problem is serious or simply cosmetic. We have to rely on the test results as displayed. And when a release is showing many failures, it doesn't look ready for prime time. So, please, do something: * Fix the underlying problem. * Apply markup to indicate the test is expected to fail. * Change the test itself to be more selective about the results it reports. I don't meant to pick on any one library and will send more or less the same reply to similar queries about other libraries. --Beman