Re: [boost] Re: Fixes and additions for each release

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-31 13:24:40

At 05:18 PM 10/30/2002, Edward Diener wrote:

 >Nonetheless, some sort of record of changes from release to release would 

 >be
 >most valuable. It would be a great help to those who need to update their
 >own implementations based on Boost's implementations, especially, as in 
my
 >case, when changes have been made to a Boost implementation for one's own
 >private version and a new release of Boost is issued.
 >
 >Needless to say it would also be a benefit to those who are using a new
 >Boost release and want to understand explicitly what has changed from the
 >previous release and what new functionality has been added and where.
 >
 >I know from my own experience that it is hard for developers to keep 
track
 >of every specific change as they develop a product, but I see little to 
no
 >indication of changes made between releases of Boost in its various
 >libraries, and find this lack of information disconcerting and 
unproductive
 >to Boost usage.

Perhaps developers should be encouraged to add a change list to their 
documentation, listing changes between releases which might be of interest 
to users. For consistency, call it changes.html and put it in the library's 
documentation directory. With a link from the main docs page.

--Beman