Re: Do we still want develop branch?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-11-16 14:31:30

Robert Ramey wrote:
> The CI for the boost serialization does not and never has worked.  This
> is easy to veryify just by looking at any of the CI output for this
> library.  And this demonstrable fact has been pointed out numerous
> times. This situation is never addressed.

Looking at your last GHA build on develop

https://github.com/boostorg/serialization/actions/runs/6845902041

which for some reason only includes Windows jobs, there's a failure
on gcc, caused by the fact that the unqualified call to `visit` at

https://github.com/boostorg/serialization/blob/a20c4d97c37e5f437c8ba78f296830edb79cff9e/test/test_variant.cpp#L131

finds std::visit via ADL and tries to instantiate it, which fails. This looks
like a bug in libstdc++ 8 to me, as std::visit is required to SFINAE, but
it could just be that the standard at the time didn't require it.

This is not in any way a failure of CI - test_variant doesn't compile
under GCC 8, so it tells you so. What else do you expect to happen?
And who and how is supposed to "address this situation"?