Re: [boost] [1.59] Still unmerged changes in the super-project

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.59] Still unmerged changes in the super-project
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-08 15:06:20

I have no knowledge of these unmerged changes, but I am coming to the view that things that exist in
develop for a long time without causing trouble should be merged to master unless someone objects.

We have far too many unmerged and unapplied fixes.

So I have come to view that the benefits of probably-fixing-things outweigh the risk of
possibly-breaking-things.

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of John Maddock
> Sent: 04 August 2015 19:33
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [boost] [1.59] Still unmerged changes in the super-project
> 
> There are a number of unmerged changes in develop of the super-project that look like they should
> really be in release, in particular:
> 
> * Jamroot, contains amongst other things a very old fix for Oracle C++ support, without which
> building with Oracle is more or less broken.  In fact unmerged commits on this file go back
to....wait
> for it... 2011 !
> * bootstrap.bat has fixes for some rather embarrassing typos.
> * bootstrap.sh has lots of fixes, also going back to 2011.
> 
> Those were the "highlights" that stood out to me, the full list with unmerged changes is:
> 
>   .gitmodules                         | 613
> ++++++++++++++++++------------------
>   .travis.yml                         |   6 +-
>   Jamroot                             |  32 +-
>   boostcpp.jam                        |  47 +--
>   boostcpp.py                         | 459 ---------------------------
>   bootstrap.bat                       |   4 +-
>   bootstrap.sh                        |  24 +-
>   doc/Jamfile.v2                      |   2 -
>   doc/src/boost.xml                   |   2 -
>   libs/libraries.htm                  |  10 +-
>   libs/maintainers.txt                |   5 +-
>   status/Jamfile.v2                   |   4 -
>   status/explicit-failures-markup.xml |  41 +--
>   tools/Jamfile.v2                    |   2 +-
>   14 files changed, 336 insertions(+), 915 deletions
> 
> Best, John.
> 
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