[boost] [1.32 Release] Draft tarballs are available

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-31 12:27:14

Draft zip/tarballs for the 1.32 release are available from the
following locations:

    http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.bz2
    http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.tar.gz
    http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/boost_1_32_0.zip

These are NOT the tarballs that will be released; rather, they are
the first probe aiming to uncover whatever problems we are still
unaware of (including problems with archives preparation), or, if
there are none, to confirm that pending a few issues below, we are
finally ready to release.

For your convenience, the unpacked contents is also available online
at http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/1_32_0_draft/. You
can consider this to be a draft version of post-1.32 Boost website.

KNOWN ISSUES
------------

The following is a list of known issues present in the tarballs
which grant them their draft status:

1) A small number of unmarked test failures (but no regressions).

2) A small number of broken links as follows:

    doc/html/date_time/doxy.html: broken link: ../../../boost/date_time/dst_transition_day_generators.hpp, broken link:
../../../boost/date_time/local_time_base.hpp
    doc/html/date_time/posix_time.html: broken link: ../../../libs/date_time/doc/time_duration_inherit.png
    doc/html/libraries.html: broken link: ../boost.pdf
    libs/libraries.htm: broken link: ../boost.docbook, broken link: ../boost.fo, broken link: ../boost.pdf
    libs/numeric/conversion/doc/converter.html: broken link: udt_support.html
    libs/numeric/conversion/doc/converter_policies.html: broken link: udt_support.html

3) No documentation in PDF format ("boost.pdf"), due to some build
   issues (I'll post separate email on this).

4) Placeholder pages in place of the revoked pre-1.32 MPL
   documentation.

If you encounter any issues that are not in the above list, please
report them here!

TESTING
-------

To run regression tests on the archives, you need to:

1) Grab the archive for your platform from one of the above locations.
2) Grab the latest "regression.py" from
   http://www.meta-comm.com/engineering/boost/regression.py

3) Put the archive and "regression.py" in the same directory and invoke
   the latter with the following command line:

        python regression.py --local=<archive name> --runner=<your runner id>
                --toolsets=<your toolsets> [<more options as needed>]

   For example,

        python regression.py --local=boost_1_32_0.zip --runner=metacomm
                --toolsets=msvc,vc7,vc-7_1,cw-8_3 --pjl-toolset=vc-7_1

The results will be automatically uploaded to
ftp://fx.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/boost_1_32_0/.

Finally, thanks in advance to everybody who will be looking at this!

--
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering