Re: [boost] Request for a new submodule, tools/depinst

On 11/11/16 21:26, Rene Rivera wrote:

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:

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wgetting a random version rubs me the wrong way. Test results should be reproducible.

Hmm.. Are you saying that getting an old version of the regression tools that "matches" a particular checkout of the libraries at some point in time should always work and be a measure of reproduction?

I think that's correct. In my work, I have a number of scripts to build various libraries, some of which are downloaded from git or other SCMs. It is essential that whenever those scripts are run, they use exactly the same source to build the package. This is usually achieved by checking out a particular tag or revision. I think Boost, as a whole, should support this usage. I realize that checking out a particular revision of each git submodule will always work, but since we already use superproject as the synchronization means of different submodules, checking out a revision of superproject should work.