Re: [boost] [iostreams] Ticket #5237 - Chance to get fix applied into Boost 1.59?

Subject: Re: [boost] [iostreams] Ticket #5237 - Chance to get fix applied into Boost 1.59?
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-05 11:57:44

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Deniz Bahadir <deniz.bahadir_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Am 04.08.2015 um 17:10 schrieb Deniz Bahadir:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> in our application we use Boost.Iostreams with GZip functionality to
>> write some data into gzipped output-files.
>> Eventually we realized, that we would get corrupted output-files if no
>> data was available that could be written to the output-file
>>
>> By looking for a patch we stumbled across an issue-report [1] which
>> seems to be open for more than 4 years, although a simple fix was
>> already provided in its comments 3,5 years ago.
>>
>> My question is:
>> Can somebody apply that fix to the development branch and could it still
>> make it into the upcoming Boost 1.59 release?
>>
>>
> I additionally created a pull-request [2] which has the simple fix already
> applied.
>
> Best regards,
> Deniz
>
> [1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5237
>>
> [2] https://github.com/boostorg/iostreams/pull/16
>

You know what would make this pull request even better?
Tests.

-- Marshall