Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.44] Beta progress?
From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-20 15:57:16

On 20 Jul 2010, at 14:34, Robert Ramey wrote:

>> 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.
> 
> That would be prudent and I'm considering it.
> 
> Actually, I think the whole issue of library version # is an interesting
> one which merits consideration.  I see a couple of version #'s
> 
> a) api version - like library_version is now
> b) implemenation version - bumped every library change
> c) ABI version.
> 
> The inclusion of these version # in the library would
> permit library user code to verify that dynamically loaded
> or statically linked libraries are compatible with the
> libraries being used.  So program x would include
> code which checks the api level and can abort
> if the linked in library isn't recent enough.  Finding
> "dll hell" bugs like this can be a nightmare.

Robert, another related issue is whether I need to update Boost.MPI on the release branch. This will depend on whether you push your recent changes to the release branch or not. Can you please keep me updated?

Matthias