Re: [boost] [config][predef] Is it OK for boost.config to depend on boost.predef?

Subject: Re: [boost] [config][predef] Is it OK for boost.config to depend on boost.predef?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-29 09:06:06

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Daniel James <dnljms_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 29 May 2014 12:59, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Also, Git says you merged the new version of <boost/detail/endian.hpp> to
> > master on 9/9/13, and merged libs/predef develop to master on 1/2/14.
> What
> > am I missing?
>
> The predef master branch isn't a continuation of the subversion
> release branch, we switched to the original git branch a while ago, so
> the histories of the two repos aren't going to be in sync (this was
> agreed long before the git conversion, so no complaining please).
> Checkouts of old versions of the superproject will be, so if you want
> to look at historical versions, that's the place to look. This is
> actually the case in general as some modules have done fast-forward
> merges to master, so you can't tell when a change was merged to
> release, only when it was first committed.
>

Ah! Thanks!

So the only issue is predef/include/boost/predef/platform.h and the four
newpredef/include/boost/predef/platform/windows_* files. These are the ones
I would like to see merged to master asap.

--Beman