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clarified runner ID role

[SVN r23926]
Aleksey Gurtovoy 22 years ago
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      tools/regression/xsl_reports/runner/instructions.rst

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tools/regression/xsl_reports/runner/instructions.rst

@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@ __ http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/boost/boost/tools/regression
 Running tests
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-* To start a regression run, simply run ``regression.py`` providing it with the 
-  only required option, runner id. For example::
+* To start a regression run, simply run ``regression.py`` providing it with the only
+  required option, runner id (something unique of your choice that will identify your 
+  results in the reports [#runnerid]_). For example::
 
     python regression.py --runner=Metacomm
   
@@ -49,6 +50,11 @@ Running tests
 
     python regression.py --runner=Metacomm --proxy=http://www.someproxy.com:3128
 
+.. [#runnerid] Note that if you are running regressions interlacingly with a different 
+   set of compilers (e.g. for Intel in the morning and GCC at the end of the day), you need 
+   to provide a *different* runner id for each of these runs, e.g. ``your_name-intel``, and
+   ``your_name-gcc``.
+
 
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