On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

K. Noel Belcourt wrote:

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Trunk testing broke with this commit:

https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/60156

Here's the error message.

error: Unable to find file or target named error: 'test_coordinate_matrix_sort.cpp' error: referred from project at error: '../libs/numeric/ublas/test'

Could someone please add this missing file or revert the commit?

do you have an opinion whether the hard error above is good, in the sense that it alerts to the missing file immediately, or bad, in the sense that it's really library author's business to check if the test is still running?

As you say, it's both good and bad. Early error detection is always good, but stopping all trunk testers because of a single error like this does adversely impact developers who are attentive and do check for breakage they may have caused.

It is probably possible to just go on.

I'd personally prefer this approach as it would minimize impact to most other Boost libraries (they would continue to build and test normally) and would impact just the numeric/ublas library, and perhaps the libraries that depend on numeric/ublas, (depending on the type of failure). -- Noel