Re: [boost] [1.56.0] Release Candidate 2 available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.56.0] Release Candidate 2 available
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-08-04 08:35:35

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Lars Viklund <zao_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 11:08:11AM +0000, Marcel Raad wrote:
> > Eric Niebler <eniebler <at> boost.org> writes:
> >
> > > We've created a second release candidate to fix a few issues. The three
> > > fixes since RC1 are listed at the end of this mail.
> > >
> > > The files for 1.56.0 RC2 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.
> >
> > Tested on MSVC12 Update 3 RC for 32-bit and 64-bit and everything still
> > works as in RC1, plus the compiler crashes are gone.
>
> By "tested", do you mean attempted to build, or actually ran tests? I'm
> going to assume the former, as the latter is near-impossible for the
> layman.
>
> It's a bit disheartening to see so few attempts to run integrity tests,
> but I guess it's an artifact of it being underdocumented and hard to run
> tests and get output from them without being a proper regression test
> runner.
>

Yes, that is a problem for testing all of Boost, but it is quite easy to
check a particular library. For example, after downloading and unpacking
the rc, you can test boost.system like this:

cd boost_1_56_0
.\bootstrap
cd libs/system/test
..\..\..\b2

HTH,

--Beman