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Subject: Re: [boost] C++03 unique_ptr emulation
From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-03 13:00:37


On Jan 3, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Thomas Klimpel wrote:

> 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 (extremely) outdated manual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.

Thanks much Thomas.

-Howard


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