Re: [boost] Updated Development and Release Practices for 1.35.0

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-27 10:16:31

on Mon Aug 27 2007, "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Caisse wrote:
>> Johan Nilsson wrote:
>>>
>>> As I understood it, there will be a single "relase candidate"
>>> _branch_, used for the "ever-available stable build". The individual
>>> release candidates would still need to be separately tagged for
>>> "official" release candidates.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Release candidates are a *branch/copy* :
>>
>> http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/ImprovingPractices#Releasetags
>>
>> and my assumption from reading is that they are locked when made
>> available as a *release*.
>
> If that's the case, I stand corrected. Doesn't really make sense to put them 
> under "tags" if they are branches, though.

You make a release branch, then you make a copy of that branch in
tags/ for each release candidate.

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