Re: [boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-12 06:42:56

Beman Dawes wrote:
> 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.

Exactly my sentiments.

Aleksey