Re: [boost] [release] Continuous release archives.

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Continuous release archives.
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-09 04:16:25

On 7 Aug 2016 at 20:42, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Please report any problems sooner rather than later. So that we can try and
> address them before it's took late.

Firstly thank you for making this happen. Thanks for this kind of 
work is insufficiently given at Boost.

> [1] <https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/snapshots/master/>
> [2] <https://bintray.com/boostorg/master/snapshot#files>

I appreciate that both URLs have "snapshot" in their name, but I am 
uncomfortable with the way the filename is named as if it is a 
release. I think this will lead to people getting confused that a 
snapshot archive which may be very buggy is a release archive. That 
will undoubtedly lead to bug reports here for a "release" which never 
happened.

Can you build into the archive name something like this pattern: 
boost_1_62_0_snapshot_201608090906.zip?

I would also advocate spamming "snapshot" into various files in the 
distro e.g. docs, release notes etc.

Finally, there is a small bug at least with the .7z distro, you are 
including the CI config files for appveyor and circleci, but are 
missing any files starting with a '.'. For completeness the latter 
should probably be included.

Niall

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