From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-17 10:15:38
on Thu Jul 17 2008, "vicente.botet" <vicente.botet-AT-wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> One way to detect some incompatible evolutions could be to run the
> tests from the preceding release (1.35) with the new release headers
> and sources (1.36). I don't know SVN enough to know if such a view
> (snapshot?) is easy to create. If all the test and examples where in a
> separate directory this will be surely easier to do.
It's not overly difficult. It will be easier with the foundations
created by the boost-cmake project because the libraries are
modularized.
> The cost of making these test work without modifying at all the new
> release, will give us an idea of the cost the users will have on their
> migrations.
That's an excellent idea.
-- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com