Re: [boost] [1.33.1] Goals, tasks, schedule

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-30 08:16:57

> Certain issues that cropped up with the 1.33.0 release that necessitate
> a 1.33.1 release. 1.33.1 will be for safe bug fixes to 1.33.0 only,
> focusing on critical issues such as the already-addressed shared_ptr
> problem. There are two major issues we need to resolve before we can
> roll a release candidate of 1.33.1:
>
>   - Include order dependencies in the Serialization library
>   - GCC 4.0 type_info problems

Those should be targets for the final 1.33.1 release, but I'm not sure if we 
really need them for the *first* Beta release.

I'd like to add a few more issues to be resolved for the final 1.33.1 as 
well:

Config: support for EVC++ 
(http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/07/90101.php), I've applied this 
to the main HEAD branch apparently without ill effect, so I think it's safe 
for the release branch also.  Ulrich first raised this months ago, so I feel 
we owe him this one!

Regex: I'd like to try and fix lookbehind assertions 
(http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2005/07/12655.php), it means adding at 
least one new API in order to fix this though, so it's borderline new 
feature.

Threads: deadlocks in readwrite_mutex 
(http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2005/08/92307.php), assuming there 
isn't a mistake in the test case then we could really use someone to look 
into this as a priority, a threading lib that deadlocks is not too good an 
advert!

Threads: memory leak, this need documenting and explaining if it isn't 
already, and if we can't get rid of it (I suspect we can't).

MPL: the has_xxx boilerplate is failing with vacpp 
(http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-HEAD/developer/output/FFT-vacppv6-bin-boost-libs-mpl-test-no_has_xxx-test-vacpp-debug.html) 
which causes all the regex tests to fail with that compiler.  I'm pretty 
sure this *did* work at one point, and the error messages seem rather 
strange, so any ideas on this one would be welcome.

Whew,

That's all for now,

John.