[boost] [program_options] Current status

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-30 08:32:30

I've leaving on vacation until Aug 23, so I though I'd explain the current 
release status of program_options.

I believe that most failures are addressed. The Boost-wide table shows a lot 
of yellow cells, but I'm sure I've added explicit markup for most of them, 
and indeed the results for win32 are much better.

The only two unexpected yellow cells are for intel- win32- 7.1- vc6- stlport- 
4.5.3 at

  http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/cs-win32_metacomm/developer/program_options.html

These are fresh problem and I'm not sure how I've missed them, or when they 
are introduced. In any case, it's too late to fix them.

Another problem is that I still not sure about Darwin. All tests fail because 
of Boost.Test problem, and I'm not sure if Gennadiy is going to do anything 
about it. I think this is very bad situation, and would say that reverting 
the problematic change in Boost.Test is an option, but can't press for it.

Apart from the above, during last week I've applied numerous editorial changes 
to the docs (big thanks to Charles Brockman), revived the remaining examples, 
and added new sections to the "howto" section, so I hope docs are in a good 
shape as well.

If during the release process anybody would want to fix something, feel free 
to commit the change, making sure it does not breaks anything else, and 
dropping me a note by personal email. Thanks again to everyone who already 
sent patches for the library! 

- Volodya