From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-10 06:04:35
[this message is about the release branch, but it likely applies to the
trunk as well]
Hello,
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
The directory listing displays a lot of strange looking things:
drwxr-xr-x 2 boost boost 72 Oct 9 05:21 boo
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 365 Oct 9 05:20 boost_dynamic_bitset_tests
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 395 Oct 7 14:43 borland_logo.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 335 Oct 9 05:32 cube-fr.dot
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 333 Oct 9 05:32 cube.dot
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 3697 Oct 9 07:30 demo_save.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 388 Oct 9 07:29 demofile.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 353 Oct 9 05:32 disconnected-fr.dot
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 82 Oct 9 06:33 filename
drwxr-xr-x 2 boost boost 72 Oct 9 05:21 foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 05:21 fsream_test_lpath
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 05:21 fstream_test_foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 05:21 fstream_test_???
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 1249 Oct 7 14:43 intel_logo.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 553 Oct 7 14:43 kai_logo.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 956 Oct 9 05:32 kevin-bacon2.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 763 Oct 7 14:43 ms_logo.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 2348 Oct 7 14:43 notes.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 0 Oct 9 07:53 pattern.temp2
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 15 Oct 9 07:53 pattern.test
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 450 Oct 9 05:32 random.dot
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 9 Oct 9 06:42 rng.saved
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 28 Oct 9 05:11 temp.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 46 Oct 9 07:28 test.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 46 Oct 9 07:28 test2.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 636 Oct 9 07:28 test3.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 12 Oct 9 05:17 test_facet_file.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 8 Oct 9 07:28 testfile2
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 49 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_binary_archive.hpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 36 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_text_archive.hpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 144 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_text_warchive.hpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 296 Oct 9 07:04 testfile_xml_archive.hpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 296 Oct 9 07:05 testfile_xml_warchive.hpp
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 186 Oct 9 05:20 tmp_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 454 Oct 9 05:32 triangular-fr.dot
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 455 Oct 9 05:32 triangular-kk.dot
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 655840 Oct 9 04:57 wave_slex_lexer.dfa
-rw-r--r-- 1 boost boost 5690 Oct 7 14:43 win32-notes-map.txt
drwxr-xr-x 3 boost boost 96 Oct 9 05:21 xx
drwxr-xr-x 2 boost boost 72 Oct 9 05:21 ???
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
2. be deleted automatically after tests, or
3. be added to the svn:ignore property of the directory?
Regards,
m