Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.66.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1

On 16.11.2017 11:33, Daniel James via Boost wrote:

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OK, thanks. I have committed https://github.com/boostorg/python/commit/b9d0d974995d2ed6a7aeed877ee4d8ab0a... and will merge to master once the change cycles through a round of tests. (I have to admit that I find it extremely daunting to navigate the online test matrix. There are so many false positives that it's hard to spot actual failures.) Presumably a lot of those are due to python not being available or

On 16 November 2017 at 16:16, Stefan Seefeld via Boost wrote: properly set up, would it be possible to detect this in boost build?

Of course ! I agree, such situations should be flagged much earlier, and the Boost.Python build (and tests) skipped. Sometime however the failure is different, though, but with the same net effect: rendering the test results useless as the failures don't tell anything about the code, but rather the testing platform setup. Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...