Re: [release] Boost 1.72.0 Release Candidate 1

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-05 17:02:14

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:01 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 2019-12-05 19:48, Marshall Clow wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:23 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost
> > <boost_at_[hidden] <mailto:boost_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
> > The reason that we have betas is that some external folks (like linux
> > distros) trigger on that.
> > They ignore boost until they see a beta release, then they start testing
> > against that; knowing that a release is imminent.
>
> I assume, they trigger on RCs too, right?
>

Not that I've seen; no.

-- Marshall