Re: [boost] [release] Master branch now completely closed for the 1.70.0 release

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Master branch now completely closed for the 1.70.0 release
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-04-05 00:50:50

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:35 AM John Maddock via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
> On 04/04/2019 15:24, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
> > The master branch is now closed for all changes except by permission for
> > the release.
>
> I'm not entirely sure about this one, but one Boost.Math header has a
> comment with some invalid characters in it (cut and paste error from a
> PDF I suspect).  The fix is trivial:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/math/commit/166e5fb5130ac76d38c4056236e7f408b009702e
>
> Should we cherry pick?
>
> Note that it's not shown up as an issue in the CI tests, I suspect it
> only causes problems on Windows machines that are not using a US or
> Western European code page.  But when it does cause an issue it's a hard
> compiler error.
>

If we do an RC2, let's fix that - but I don't know that it's worth rolling
an RC2 for this one fix.
-- Marshall