Re: [release] Boost 1.72.0 Release Candidate 1

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-05 16:23:12

On 2019-12-05 19:08, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:28 AM Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> The first release candidates for the 1.72.0 release are now available at:
>>
>> <https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.72.0/source/>
>>
>> The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
>>
>> fcd8b598bc63ae7bbd3e72635d95b9d749ef65f4e5342c24445ea1fb9d417ac3
>>   boost_1_72_0_b1_rc1.7z
>> f6a527a261e273bfd2b6161d359ab9fb53c1795239c696f501a62f575cd30bda
>>   boost_1_72_0_b1_rc1.tar.bz2
>> 8e591146d39e8cb45c74540aae26ae6321b1e83ab1b12e236dd117f93475ceb9
>>   boost_1_72_0_b1_rc1.tar.gz
>> 3425e7bfd49a6ad70aa7e82c1c740f7821eb58d14604b133be4dfbcdc0c58e3a
>>   boost_1_72_0_b1_rc1.zip
>>
>> As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
>> the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
>> both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
>>
> 
> I just noticed that the files have an "b1" in the file name.
> Dang!
> 
> They're not beta RCs, they're release RCs.
> Sorry for the confusion.

Not a suggestion for 1.72, but we could probably simplify pre-releases 
naming to just RCn without betas. I.e. we'd have 4-5 RCs instead of RC 
betas and RCs.