Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-11 12:41:49

At 05:12 AM 8/11/2003, Alisdair Meredith wrote:
 >Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
 >
 >> While I totally support the failures markup goal, I would like to see
 >> _the_ release criteria to include "no regressions from the previous
 >> release" item as well, preferrably for all non-beta compilers that are
 >> currently under regression testing. Especially since now we have tools
 >> to ensure it.
 >
 >OTOH, it might not always be achievable.
 >For boost 1.31 we are having an interface breaking change to the
 >iterator_adaptors, and not all compilers pass all tests with the new
 >adaptors yet.
 >
 >While this may not be a problem for the iterators library (it is
 >effectively new) it may have a knock-on effect on any other boost
 >libraries implemented on top of it.
 >
 >The principle is a good one, but I be prepared to make a few allowances
 >in the practice.

I think a reasonable goal is that any regressions should be understood and 
discussed, rather than silent.

--Beman