Re: [release] Boost 1.80.0 Release Candidate 1 is available

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-08-09 17:30:55

On Aug 9, 2022, at 10:17 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> On 8/9/22 02:48, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>> On 8/9/22 01:27, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 2022, at 7:25 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 8/4/22 16:25, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:
>>>>> The first release candidates for the 1.80.0 release are now available at:
>>>>> <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.80.0/source/>
>>>>> 
>>>>> The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 4b2136f98bdd1f5857f1c3dea9ac2018effe65286cf251534b6ae20cc45e1847	boost_1_80_0_rc1.tar.gz
>>>>> 1e19565d82e43bc59209a168f5ac899d3ba471d55c7610c677d4ccf2c9c500c0	boost_1_80_0_rc1.tar.bz2
>>>>> d12a2af721e22dbfb984ef061ee4c4ab2387f1904f6d65bc5acebaa34d6366ec	boost_1_80_0_rc1.7z
>>>>> e34756f63abe8ac34b35352743f17d061fcc825969a2dd8458264edb38781782	boost_1_80_0_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 would like to merge this last minute fix to Boost.Filesystem master:
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/commit/9c9d127bddc2b72187c57f4933c49666255d7a4f
>>>> 
>>>> This should fix error constructing a directory iterator over a network
>>>> share on Windows prior to 10.
>>> 
>>> Is this a regression against 1.79.0?
>> 
>> The problem was introduced in 1.79.0, so a regression since 1.78.0.
> 
> Gentle ping. 1.80 release is closing in, so if we're going to allow this
> change in, please let me know ASAP.

I talked to the other release managers, and we’re thinking .. not.

The reasons are:
* This has been this way since April, and no one noticed until last week.
* Your checkin comment does not exactly fill me with confidence: “probably fixes #246”
* Windows 10 was released in 2015.

This just doesn’t seem like a sufficient reason to roll an RC2.

— Marshall