RE: [boost] Current CVS Snapshot or...?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-25 22:49:16

Drazen DOTLIC wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Drazen,

>  My company is using boost and we would very much like to use variant
> library immediately and not wait for the next official release of
> boost. Now, we know that this might not be sensible, but we are ready
> to take the risk. At the same time, we don't want to break anything
> else in the boost (and by chain reaction in our code). It seems that
> variant lib is dependent on (branch of?) mpl, 

The version of the Variant library in the CVS' main trunk depends
(naturally) only on the main trunk components - MPL not being an
exception. The question is which parts of the main trunk you need/can
get without breaking things. 

> so what I would like to
> know is: what is the most sane branch/snapshot we should take from the
> cvs to get reasonably stable boost (overall) with variant in whatever
> state it is ATM?

As far as MPL goes, I would say you can safely update it from the main
trunk - that is, if you are currently using 1.30.0 release.

To determine the status of other Variant dependencies you can use our
experimental status reports which employ automatically collected
1.30.0-snapshot's failures to highlight the differences between now and
then: 

http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/user_summary_page.html

Basically, 'unexp.' there signals a new failure (or a new library/test
case). Of course, you would have to use your own judgment to determine
how critical are those to you.

HTH,
Aleksey