Re: [boost] What are the things that we HAVE TO fix before shipping 1.56.0?

Subject: Re: [boost] What are the things that we HAVE TO fix before shipping 1.56.0?
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-28 19:32:07

On 7/28/2014 6:03 PM, Niall Douglas wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2014 at 14:24, Marshall Clow wrote:
>
>> We´re coming down to the end of the release process, so I´m taking a poll.
>>
>> * What bugs do you think MUST be fixed before shipping 1.56?
>> In other words, if bug XXX is not fixed, then (in your opinion) we should not bother making a release.
>
> I have proposed Boost.AFIO building and passing all unit soak tests
> on:
>
> GCCs 4.6 to 4.9, x86, x64 and ARMv7a.
>
> clangs 3.2 to 3.4, x86, x64. ARMv7a fails, but I don't think that is
> Boost's fault.
>
> MSVCs 11 and 12, x86, x64.
>
> The is a good test that AFIO's dependencies ASIO, Thread, Chrono,
> Filesytem are all strong in 1.56 under very heavy multithreaded
> usage.
>
> What is currently failing is MSVC 10 (VS2010) in C++0x build mode.
> AFIO has not changed since Boost 1.55, so something has changed in
> 1.56. It is something to do with the scoped enum emulation, what used
> to work no longer works in VS2010 on 1.56.

Can you trace this to something in one of the Boost libraries AFIO uses 
? If so that issue might need to be addressed for 1.56.

>
> I don't think this is a showstopper though, I am currently working
> around it with new code.