Re: [release] Boost 1.85.0 Release Candidate 1 is available

From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-05 15:30:28

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM Marshall Clow via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> The first release candidates for the 1.85.0 release are now available at:
> <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.85.0/source/>
>
> The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
>
> de84c538aaadf2388362e006d73d0be783541288d87a9ef68e906995efc2148d
> boost_1_85_0_rc1.tar.gz
> dd8baccd0b5ca534ad3717a07b426391fe6d49b6b84bf07d10e72792a5d1ba10
> boost_1_85_0_rc1.7z
> 289ab7784b9297e13938876f698ced91f734f9a80f91099d35803b78d15c0210
> boost_1_85_0_rc1.tar.bz2
> 84c35ef72efde30725de7bca8ccf399cd8d205a0d5b249465cf86c818291b7b7
> boost_1_85_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.
>
> -- The Release managers
>

This contains a serious failure on windows that wasn't present in the beta.

Beast appears to have some documentation that is far too long for windows
to support working with. The maximum path length for anything on windows is
260 chars. This file name is already 231 chars:
boost__asio__traits__query_static_constexpr_member_lt__beast__test__immediate_executor_comma__Property_comma__typename_enable_if_lt__std__is_convertible_lt__Property_comma__execution__blocking_t__gt___value__gt___type__gt_.html

With the minimum possible length to the boost directory (drive letter plus
a single character where it would be more reasonable to have something like
D:\boost_1_85_0), we're already at 263 characters.
D:\b/libs\beast\doc\html\beast\ref\boost__asio__traits__query_static_constexpr_member_lt__beast__test__immediate_executor_comma__Property_comma__typename_enable_if_lt__std__is_convertible_lt__Property_comma__execution__blocking_t__gt___value__gt___type__gt_.html

It is true that for some programs, the windows path length limit can be
disabled, but there are many tools that this doesn't work for, so it needs
to be fixed before this release can go out.

Tom