[boost] Re: [1.32 Release] Branch-for-release date

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-13 14:53:30

"Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I'm still struggling with the fact that spirit 1.61
> depends upon apply_if.hpp which no longer exists. In effect this makes the
> serialization library unavailable to vc 6.0, borland and others. That's just
> one case. BTW. These changes will break user code that depends on previous
> boost versions.  So that's another question.

I've been wondering if it would make sense to drop in an apply_if,
just for this release, to smooth the transition.  It would be trivial
to have it dispatch to eval_if.  We can rip it out of the trunk as
soon as we branch for release so it will have to be fixed up before
next release.

> Another issue is that the toolsets have some pending anomalies.
> Aside from the fact that the toolset documentation is now out of
> sync with the actual toolsets available and in use, I'm having
> problems with all those which use stlport which used to work.  I'm
> still tracking this down.
>
> This is just the stuff I know about.  I would say 17 Sep is
> hopelessly optimistic.

It does seem a bit unrealistic to me, but I don't want to throw water
on the fire ;-)

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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