Beman Dawes wrote: > At 05:12 AM 8/11/2003, Alisdair Meredith wrote: > >Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: > > > >> While I totally support the failures markup goal, I would like to see > >> _the_ release criteria to include "no regressions from the previous > >> release" item as well, preferrably for all non-beta compilers that are > >> currently under regression testing. Especially since now we have tools > >> to ensure it. > > > >OTOH, it might not always be achievable. > >For boost 1.31 we are having an interface breaking change to the > >iterator_adaptors, and not all compilers pass all tests with the new > >adaptors yet. > > > >While this may not be a problem for the iterators library (it is > >effectively new) it may have a knock-on effect on any other boost > >libraries implemented on top of it. > > > >The principle is a good one, but I be prepared to make a few allowances > >in the practice. > > I think a reasonable goal is that any regressions should be understood and > discussed, rather than silent.
Exactly my sentiments. Aleksey _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
