Re: [boost] 1.33.1 RC? Was: shared_ptr under OS X

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-24 04:18:05

Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> 
> I totally agree. But then technically _there was_ an almost two-week
> period during which the RC tarballs were readily available for
> download and tryout and yet obviously most of our users waited until
> the release was officially out to start looking at it. In that light,
> I'm afraid that just prolonging the RC period by itself is not going
> to be as effective as one might hope for. We need more publicity for
> the RC period, may be as much as for the actual release.
> 

Two weeks isn't long for testing a new boost release in a commercial 
project.  It took us about a week just to get serialization-1.33.0 
compiling in our project (using Borland C++Builder) which was already 
working with boost-1.32.0

Using the rc/beta in production code is a good test, but we do need time 
to test it.  We also have other priorities at work such as meeting 
deadlines which can span a two week period and so we could miss the RC 
period altogether before we get a chance to test things.

Weekly zip files from when the branch is frozen may help with this (we 
aren't in a habbit of trying to get out a CVS working copy for 
production code) but I think at least a month of the freeze period with 
weekly tar/zip files of the distro main enable more end-users to test 
before the actual release.

Cheers

Russell