Re: [boost] A *smaller* release concept

From: Michael Marcin (mike_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-17 11:26:07

Jeff Garland wrote:
> Nicola Musatti wrote:
>> Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl <at> getdesigned.at> writes:
>>
>> I expect it to be much worse than that: trunk evolved for about a year and a
>> half since the 1.34 branch was created. I don't think it's realistic to move new
>> libraries onto 1.34.1 and expect them to work straight away.
> 
> Actually it works pretty well.  I did a test about 5 months ago of putting all 
> the new libraries on 1.34 and it worked fine.  I'm an advocate of 1.35 being 
> released with just new libraries, but I'm willing to give the 
> controlled/limited update approach a chance.  As part of the release team, 
> I'll be watching for regressions so we can revert quickly to a stable base.
> 

FWIW I've been using a mix of the HEAD and RC_1_34_0 branches from CVS 
for about a year and have been constantly cherry picking updates from 
svn trunk since it went live with no non-trivial problems that I can 
remember.

- Michael Marcin