Re: [boost] MSVC 2019 and 1.70 beta

Subject: Re: [boost] MSVC 2019 and 1.70 beta
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-14 12:40:10

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:37 PM degski <degski_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 14:17, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> It's silly to ignore MSVC until it's released as GA / RTM / RTW / whatever.
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> No, it's not,

Why?

> in the same sense that any question/problem arising from somebody using a Boost RC in production would be met by: "Install Release first."

If you want to reason by analogy, don't forget to include why you
believe the two cases are equivalent.

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> Whether a Boost Release could/should be coordinated with a VC Release is a totally other question (Peter seems to raise that), though (I think it should).

IMO if you started preparing in December (after the preview release)
probably no adjustments / coordination would've been needed.

-- 
Olaf