I was just going to open a ticket about the test failures in Mingw 4.4.1, but i don't see uuid in the component list. Can it be added? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/New-libraries-deadline-approaching-tp26674083p26676012... Sent from the Boost - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Hi, On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:30 +0300, "Vladimir Prus" <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:

Boosters,

the deadline for merge of new libraries to 1.42 is Dec 14. So far, the only library that was added to trunk relative to 1.41 is uuid.

Andy, does it seem like merge to release branch is possible by Dec 14?

Yes I think it is quite possible.

Do you need any assistance?

Yes, I could use some. Read below about the test_generators failure below.

It seems that you have succeeded in integrating the tests into the regression framework. However, one test -- test_generators, appear to fail on all platforms and test_uuid fails on a bunch as well. If the test failures are unclear, you might want to ask platform experts for help, while there is time.

I have just committed a fix for test_uuid. It is an issue with creating a hash for a uuid. My test results are for a 32-bit machine. I believe my fix will now also work for 64-bit machines. The failure for test_generators is with the name_generator and wide strings. I have learned that most platforms / compilers have sizeof(wchar_t) != 2 and I wrote me test for sizeof(wchar_t) == 2. I believe the results are correct, but my tests don't show that. I push the bytes of the string through a sha1 function and need the hash to be the same for the same string regardless of the size of wchar_t (I believe). I may just remove the wide character support (and place a example in the docs of how it could be done) until a better solution is found. Does anyone have another solution? Regards, Andy Tompkins