Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [1.55.0] Release candidate 2 available

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [1.55.0] Release candidate 2 available
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-03 23:11:31

On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jeff Flinn <Jeffrey.Flinn_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 11/3/2013 6:05 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:
> 
> On Nov 3, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:lists_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> 
>     RC2 files for 1.55.0 are available at
>     http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
> 
>     As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
>     the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
>     both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
> 
>     This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out
>     to SourceForge.
> 
>     The files (and associated md5s) are:
>             93780777cfbf999a600f62883bd54b17
>      *boost_1_55_0_rc2.tar.gz
>             d6eef4b4cacb2183f2bf265a5a03a354
>      *boost_1_55_0_rc2.tar.bz2
>             8aca361a4713a1f491b0a5e33fee0f1f        *boost_1_55_0_rc2.zip
>             4e5bbc15fc8c80df8be428f8a5b5a823        *boost_1_55_0_rc2.7z
> 
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     -- The release managers
> 
> 
> When is the release expected? (How long do we have to try building?)
> 
> We try to ship an RC on Wednesday, then release on Monday.
> If there are no problems found in this RC, I expect we'll release on
> Friday or Saturday.
> 
> Serialization still fails to build on VS2013. This is due to tickets #9279/#8750 not being merged to release from trunk. Robert sent me a direct email saying "See my previous post on this thread to see why we're stuck here." but I've not been able to figure out to what he's referring.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> I'm also seeing the serialization failures with msvc-12.0.

MSVC-12 is the same as VS2013.

The "2013" is the version number for the whole package, and "12" is the version of the compiler.

-- Marshall

Marshall Clow     Idio Software   <mailto:mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>

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