Re: [boost] Boost 1.34.0 Beta released

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-07 15:17:08

on Mon May 07 2007, Scott Meyers <usenet-AT-aristeia.com> wrote:

> I'm confused.  There are 69 libraries listed at 
> http://boost.org/libs/libraries.htm#Alphabetically.  The announcement says that 
> 1.34 beta adds 5 new libraries (Foreach, statechart, TR1, Typeof, and 
> Xpressive), for a total of 74.   But I see only 64 libraries listed at 
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/index_release.html 
> , and that latter list does not include all the libraries listed for 1.33.

I can't speak to that part.

> I'm also confused about the contents of 1.34 versus what's been accepted at 
> Boost since 1.33.  "Latest News" at Boost lists the following libraries as 
> having been accepted since the beginning of 2006:
> - April 11, 2007 - Quantitative Units Accepted
> - April 2, 2007 - Intrusive Containers Accepted
> - March 3, 2007 - Bimap Accepted
> - February 19, 2007 - Accumulators Accepted
> - November 28, 2006 - Function Types Accepted
> - November 7, 2006 - Generic Image Library Accepted
> - September 21, 2006 - Message Passing Accepted
> - June 6, 2006 - Fusion Library Accepted
> - May 20, 2006 - Property Tree Accepted
> - April 12, 2006 - Promotion Traits Accepted
> - March 22, 2006 - Asynchronous I/O Library Accepted
> - February 17, 2006 - Shared Memory Library Accepted
> But most of these libraries are not listed at 
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/index_release.html 
> .
>
> Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place for a comprehensive listing of the 
> contents of 1.34.
>
> Can somebody please clarify the situation regarding the contents of 1.34?

1.34 had a "new code" freeze long ago (maybe a year or more!) but we
kept accepting libraries.  The libraries accepted since then will go
into 1.35, which we hope to release very soon after 1.34.

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