Re: [boost] Request for more detailed change history with releases

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-29 06:57:41

Russell Hind wrote:
> I think the current change history for boost releases isn't adequate. 
> It appears that libraries get changed (small and big changes) between 
> releases but many of these aren't documented.  A couple of reasons I'd 
> like this to be changed are:
> 
> 2. Compatibility.  e.g. ublas stopped supporting Borland C++Builder in 
> 1.32.  In 1.31 we used ublas and then tried to move to 1.32 but there 
> was no indication of this in the changes history and this is quite 
> important.  Significant amounts of time can be invested trying to use 
> the new release of boost only to find you can't because one library that 
> is core to a user may have been deprecated for that compiler without any 
> warning.  It seems to me that there is no easy way to tell this for an 
> end user.  Yes there are reqression test results, but these would 
> require the user to look at the regression tests for both 1.31 and 1.32 
> and compare the two, but I would expect most end users to ignore the 
> regression tests, especially once they are already using a version of boost.

I would especially like to see this second item. For any library it should be 
easy to see which compilers/releases are supported. Having to hunt this down in 
any other place than that library's documentation, such as in regression tests, 
is a PITA.