Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Release Candidate 2 available

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-24 08:52:31

Phil Endecott wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> I should have asked not just for trouble reports, but success reports too.
> 
> I have successfully built rc2 on my Debian Linux box with gcc 4.1.3 - 
> though I have probably not exercised it enough to detect any problems.
> 
> A few notes, which are not things that need to be fixed for the release:
> 
> - The top-level directory after untaring was called 
> boost-posix-2008-03-21; I was expecting something more like 
> boost-1.35.0-rc2; is this going to change for the final version?

Yep. I picked that up too on a Windows install. I've added it to the 
issues list and will fix for RC3, which I hope is the final RC.

> - It's nice that the build process uses "./configure; make; make 
> install" but it would be even nicer if there was a file called INSTALL 
> that explained, in a couple of lines, that that was the way to build 
> it.  This would make it even more like other open-source packages.

Would you like to volunteer to draft INSTALL? It should have two 
sections, one for POSIX-like systems, and one for Windows, and should 
also include a pointer to the full install docs. (Added to issues list, 
but not considered a showstopper.)

> - It looks as if configure checks for some dependencies (ICU?), but it 
> didn't check whether I had the necessary python or bzip2 headers 
> installed; it would be great if it could do this automatically.

Doug, is this something you could look at? (Added to issues list, but 
not considered a showstopper.)

Thanks for the report, Phil!

--Beman