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

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-05 15:51:53

On 4/5/24 18:30, Tom Kent via Boost wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps, adding SHORT_NAMES=YES Doxygen parameter will help?

https://www.doxygen.nl/manual/config.html#cfg_short_names