Re: [boost] 1.46 closing for new libraries tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] 1.46 closing for new libraries tomorrow
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-19 16:52:56

On 12/19/2010 2:44 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
> Our calendar at
>
> 	http://www.boost.org/development/index.html
>
> say that 1.46 will be closed for new libraries tomorrow. I believe we
> have two libraries that were accepted, but not released. On those,
> Interval Containers library appears to have been merged to release
> branch already. The other one, Ratio, does not appear to be present
> in trunk, and therefore is not likely to be included in 1.46.
>
> The next deadline is on Jan 10, when the trunk will be closed for major
> changes.

Boost 1.45 was release on November 19 and one month later the next 
release is closed to new libraries. Is this the normal Boost policy 
regarding releases ? I ask that only because it seems it leaves little 
time between the one release and the next ( one month ) for new 
libraries to get into the next release. I do realize that Boost is on a 
quarterly release cycle, and do appreciate that fact, but that each 
release has only a month ( or 1/3 of the 3 months allotted time frame), 
to bring in new libraries from the previous release does seem a bit 
limiting.