Re: [boost] 1.58.0 rc3 is now available

Subject: Re: [boost] 1.58.0 rc3 is now available
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-04-09 07:41:59

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Jessica Hamilton <
jessica.l.hamilton_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 8 April 2015 at 18:47, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > Release candidate files for 1.58.0 are available at:
> > http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
> >
> > * Since rc1, the changes that were causing the serialization libraries to
> > fail to build on MSVC have been reverted.
> > * Since rc2, the documentation for bind, and mem_fun. No code changes.
> >
> > 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.
>
> The platform support for Haiku that was merged had a couple errors
> that I've managed to iron out with a few days of regression testing.
>
> Without these additional patches [1], [2], [3], the math and
> functional/hash libraries are very broken. It also addresses an issue
> with threads, and the asio tests.
>
> Jessica
>
> [1] https://github.com/boostorg/config/pull/50
> [2] https://github.com/boostorg/asio/pull/19
> [3] https://github.com/boostorg/math/pull/12
>

IIUC, those libraries are broken on Haiku, but not on other platforms.

IMO, it is far too late in the release process to address this.

--Beman