Re: [boost] [next release] Any new libraries ready for the nextrelease?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-25 05:10:20

David Abrahams wrote:
>> At some point in the future we can reevaluate that. If we change over
>> to CMake someday, perhaps testing will become so easy that a lot of
>> resources are freed. Or maybe as we refine the quarterly release
>> cycle, quarterly releases will become so automatic that we can divert
>> resources to point releases occasionally. But not now.
>
> That's fine with me, as long as we all understand that the new system
> where there is a single "release" branch does not accomodate point
> releases.  Should we decide to start making point releases, we'll have
> to change the system again.
>
> Anyway, maybe being able to tell people straight out that Boost
> doesn't do point releases will help explain things to the many people
> who have been asking how the current system can work.

I was wondering about this earlier today, what if we alternated point 
releases and full releases?  We should as Beman says get the current system 
semi-automatic *first* of course!

John.