Re: [boost] Re: RFP: boost libraries

From: William E. Kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-03 09:31:10

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Yap" <yap_noel_at_[hidden]>
> --- "Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > * library versioning
> >
> > My understanding is that boost is still moving too
> > fast to maintain an
> > ABI across versions.  If that is true, my suggestion
> > is to simply
> > version them using boost's version number (e.g.
> > 1.27).
>
> If we were to do this, we would need to synch the
> releases of the packages with the release of Boost.
> I'm not sure if it would be good to be limited in this
> respect.
>
> I guess an alternative would be to have packages adopt
> the boost release number (eg 1.27.0) and use a fourth
> digit for bug-fix releases (eg 1.27.0.1).

I'm not at all sure how you'd manage packaging anything other than Boost
releases.

Bill Kempf