Re: [boost] C++03 unique_ptr emulation

Subject: Re: [boost] C++03 unique_ptr emulation
From: Thomas Klimpel (Thomas.Klimpel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-03 12:56:11

Howard Hinnant wrote:
> I've never used Jam before.  I'll take a look.

It may be a good idea to take the documentation from the side

http://beta.boost.org/doc/

instead of the side 

http://www.boost.org/doc/

There seem to be some subtle issues that sometimes prevent the proper updating of the documentation at http://www.boost.org/doc/ (track tickets for this have been filled multiple times). This has hit me when I tried to learn Boost.Build, because I downloaded the (extremely) outdated manual

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/tools/build/v2/doc/userman.pdf

instead of the current one

http://beta.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/tools/build/v2/doc/userman.pdf

and then subscribed to boost.build asking silly questions that would have been covered at length in the current version of the manual.

A recent message from Steven Watanabe ("This has been available on the beta site since November
http://beta.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0?view=categorized
but hasn't been merged to the live site.") just reminded me of this, so I checked and found out that the problems are not resolved yet.

I learned from the comments at the tickets that this is something more subtle/difficult than a simple merge, but as long as these issues are not resolved, it seems better to recommend http://beta.boost.org/doc instead of http://www.boost.org/doc.

Regards,
Thomas