Re: [boost] boost 1.32 acknowledgements

From: Daryle Walker (darylew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-18 06:02:37

On 11/17/04 1:03 PM, "Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Joaquín Mª López Muñoz writes:
>> Aleksey Gurtovoy ha escrito:
>> 
>>> David Abrahams writes:
>>>> Stefan Slapeta <stefan_at_[hidden]> writes:
[SNIP]
>>>>> Anybody volunteering to write 2 sentences?
>>>> 
>>>> I will be happy to, but there's a question of whether we need to bump
>>>> the minor version number in order to make any changes.  The CD for
>>>> the book is already frozen .-|
>>> 
>>> As long as it's docs only, I'm inclined to think that we shouldn't.
>>> IMO releasing 1.32.1 without 1.32.0 is bound to cause more confusion
>>> than minor docs discrepancy between the release and the CD.
>> 
>> Nobody's going to take on this, then?
> 
> I don't know about "2 sentences", but my "we shouldn't" was referring
> to David's "whether we need to bump the minor version number", not to
> "make any changes".

If the Internet release is going to be different from the book-CD release,
then the release that occurs second should have some sort of indicator.  We
wouldn't want to have users in a lurch if a bug shows up that only affects
one of the releases (i.e. with no way to check).

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Daryle Walker
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