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

From: Mohammad Nejati [ashtum] (ashtumashtum_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-05 16:35:13

> 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

Thanks for reporting this. It seems that Beast CI doesn't build
documentation on Windows platforms, and we hadn't noticed the issue.
I'm already working on a fix.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 7:10 PM Tom Kent via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> 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.
>
> Tom
>
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