Re: [Boost-cmake] Analysis of the current CMake system

2009-03-05 Thread David Abrahams

on Wed Mar 04 2009, Bill Hoffman  wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>> Another new feature in CTest/CDash development heads which may be of 
>>> interest
>>> to Boost is support for subproject labeling. See their main dashboard page 
>>> here:
>>>
>>>   
>>> http://trilinos-dev.sandia.gov/cdash/index.php?project=Trilinos&date=2009-02-27
>>
>> Functionally, it's pretty darned good.  
>>
> Cool!
>> Room for improvement:
>>
>> * I think we'd want a view that's limited to issues, so a subproject
>>   doesn't show up if it's all green (or has only warnings, configurable
>>   according to project).  See
>>   http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/issues.html
>>
> You can do that now from here:
>
> http://trilinos-dev.sandia.gov/cdash/index.php?project=Trilinos&display=project&date=2009-02-27
>
> Click on Show Filters, and you can create a filter that shows only errors, 
> warnings or
> other items that you want.  The idea will be to be able to save the queries 
> and create
> your own custom views for different purposes.

Nice capability; not a great interface.  If I want to see just things
with errors, I need a filter that says

+--+ +--+ ++
|build errors  | |is not| ||
+--+ +--+ ++

>> * It doesn't make good use of space in my browser window unless I make
>>   the browser really narrow.  It would take some design work, but it
>>   would be good to be able to get a bigger picture view at a glance,
>>   especially when the browser window is large.
>>
> We are open to suggestions.  

I'll give it some thought.

> There is a cdash mailing list here:
>
> http://www.cdash.org/cdash/help/mailing.html
>> * It's kinda ugly, but I suppose we can tweak the CSS ourselves.
>>
> Hey!  (we actually hired a graphics designer for that...)

Sorry!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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Re: [Boost-cmake] Analysis of the current CMake system

2009-03-05 Thread Brad King

David Abrahams wrote:

Click on Show Filters, and you can create a filter that shows only errors, 
warnings or
other items that you want.  The idea will be to be able to save the queries and 
create
your own custom views for different purposes.


Nice capability; not a great interface.  If I want to see just things
with errors, I need a filter that says

+--+ +--+ ++
|build errors  | |is not| ||
+--+ +--+ ++


I often click on the errors column label to sort by error count.  Then all the
zeros go to the bottom.

-Brad
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