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.
--Beman
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