[boost] Re: Boost 1.31 release?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-12 08:57:07

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.

There's got to be something wrong with the program that's making
these tables.  Look, for example, at 

http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/resources/cvs_main_trunk/developer_result_page.html#function

It says that lambda_test is a regression on msvc.  Everyone knows
that lambda has never worked on msvc (right?).

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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