Martin Wille wrote:
[this message is about the release branch, but it likely applies to the trunk as well]
The problem is already fixed in the trunk, so those fixes will migrate to the release branch once filesystem gets merged into the release branch.
in boost/status/ there are files with strange names. I suspect these have been created by some test belonging to Boost.Filesystem.
I further suspect that these tests assume a certain character encoding.
The problem is that the subversion client looks at these filenames and produces error messages like
svn: Can't convert string from native encoding to 'UTF-8': svn: fstream_test_?\226?\158?\128
...
This directory is used for maintaining test-related stuff, e.g. the list of expected failures. IMO, the same directory shouldn't be a target for automatically generated files which do not contain anything meaningful.
Please, could these files and directories (in order of preference):
1. be created elsewhere and
Any suggestions? I'd like to avoid entangling the test code with the details of the regression testing system.
2. be deleted automatically after tests, or
That's already been done. See revision 39365, September 18, 2007
3. be added to the svn:ignore property of the directory?
Not sure that is necessary, but feel free to submit a patch. Thanks, --Beman