[boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-08 19:27:37

Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Matthias Troyer <troyer_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > Dear Boosters,
>> >
>> > Since some of the applications and libraries we plan on releasing soon
>> > rely on Boost features and bugfixes that are in the CVS but not in
>> > Boost 1.30.[012] I wonder what the plans are for the Boost 1.31.0
>> > release? Since we would prefer to base our released software on a
>> > Boost release instead of a CVS snapshot I would be interested in
>> > hearing about the plans for a Boost 1.31 release
>>
>> As far as I know the CVS is in very good health at the moment.
>
> Uhmm, I really wouldn't say so! If you look at the main trunk report -
> http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cvs_main_trunk/developer_summary_page.html,
> there are lots of regressions comparing to 1.30.0, and IMO we ought to fix
> all these before we branch for the release or anything.

I can't really tell what these represent.  All of the new iterator
library tests which weren't in 1.30.0 are showing up as regressions if
they're failing.  Many are simply not going to get better; they're due
to compiler bugs which can't be worked around.  As for the others, the
failures you're reporting with intel-7.1 are very strange; my 7.1
compiler doesn't have these problems AFAIK.  What does the "meta-"
prefix mean?  Do you have some special configuration of each of these
compilers?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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