Re: [boost] [1.37.0 beta] Beta release available on SourceForge

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.37.0 beta] Beta release available on SourceForge
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-24 08:27:19

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Ruediger Berlich <
ruediger.berlich_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> first of all thanks for a great beta release. I have tested it with a
> fairly
> complex application of mine, making heavy use of serialization (the core
> dumps reported in a recent thread on the user's list seem to be gone -
> great, thanks Robert :-), boost.threads, boost.asio, boost.bind, and smart
> pointers. I have so far run into *no major* difficulties, but will of
> course report issues as they arise.
>
> ***
> A small, but from my point of view still significant, nuisance is that bug
> report 2091 doesn't appear to have been fixed, although it is easy to cure
> with a change of
>
> typedef dst_adjustment_offsets<time_duration_type> dst_adjustment_offsets;
>
> to
>
> typedef boost::date_time::dst_adjustment_offsets<time_duration_type>
> dst_adjustment_offsets;
>
> in line 161 of <BOOSTROOT>/boost/date_time/tz_db_base.hpp .
>
> Alternatively it is possible to rename the typedef in line 161 and in the 2
> or so subsequent occurances.
> ***
>
> In the absence of this fix, I need to patch Boost on many recent Linux
> patforms (at least a current Debian Lenny and OpenSUSE 11, but likely
> others as well, if they have a g++ 4.3.x Compiler).\

I'll try to make sure we apply as many of these date-time patches as
possible before the release, but it will be Monday or Tuesday before I get a
chance to work on it.

In the meantime, if anyone with write permission has date-time patches Jeff
has OK'ed stable on trunk, please go ahead and merge them to
branches/release. The release test reporting has started to cycle again.

Thanks for the report!

--Beman