[boost] [1.32 Release] New tarballs are available for testing

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-02 04:44:44

Updated draft tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the
following locations:

    http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/200411020208/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2
    http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/200411020208/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz
    http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/200411020208/boost_1_32_0.zip

This update fixes a number of the issues reported earlier, including:

  - unconventional file/directory privileges 
    (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/112582)
  
  - a bug in the filesystem library
   (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/112565)

  - missing listing of Program Options library
    (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/112571)
    
  - tarball unpacking problem in "regression.py"

  - broken links fixes
  
  - all other fixes that has been committed to the release branch
    during the last two days.

Once again, for your convenience, the unpacked contents is available 
online at http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/1_32_0_draft/. You
can consider this to be a draft version of post-1.32 Boost website.

The updated list of known issues follows.

KNOWN ISSUES
------------

The following is a list of known issues present in the tarballs
which grant them their draft status:

1) A small number of unmarked test failures (but no regressions).

2) Two files with broken links as follows:

    libs/libraries.htm: broken link: ../doc/boost.pdf
    libs/python/doc/v2/reference.html: broken link: wrapper.html, 
        broken link: wrapper.html#classes, 
        broken link: wrapper.html#override-spec, 
        broken link: wrapper.html#wrapper-spec

3) No documentation in PDF format ("boost.pdf")

4) Placeholder pages in place of the revoked pre-1.32 MPL
   documentation.

If you encounter any issues that are not in the above list, please
report them here!

TESTING
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Please see the original announcement for details -- 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/112562 

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering