Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?
From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-20 14:21:34

On 19 Jul 2010, at 22:22, Robert Ramey wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> [sent from tiny mobile device]
>> 
>> On Jul 19, 2010, at 5:48 PM, "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I had neglected to bump the library version # .  Doh!!!.
>>> 
>>> THAT is the real problem.
>> 
>> That'll do it. Consider inserting the boost version number as well;
>> that gets bumped by the release managers so you can't forget ;-)
> 
> actually the library version # has been bumped only when there
> was a change in file format - which was less frequent than
> boost releases.
> 
> lol - hold on to you hat - here we go.
> 
> But I think this question raises a much more interesting
> aspect of boost.
> 
> I think the concept of a boost release version is rapidly
> becoming out of date and irrelevant.  Everything points
> to a future of less coupling between libraries.  In the
> future, I think each library will have it's own
> interface version number and a separate implementation
> version number.  A "boost release" will only be a list
> of library version numbers - and of course a snapshot
> of a set of libraries. In general, a library won't be
> able to know what boost release it will be part of.
> 
> Another way of saysing this is that to me boost
> release is "deployment".  In the future there will
> be different "deployments".  TRx subset, reviewed,
> current and maintained, etc.  So the idea of
> putting the boost release into a library would
> be circular and not actually doable.

Hi Robert,

What you can do is just bump the version number with every release of Boost.Serialization, even if you think that nothing has changed.

Matthias