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

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-08 00:08:59

> On Apr 6, 2024, at 8:49 AM, Mohammad Nejati [ashtum] via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Marshal,
> 
> I'd like to merge the following changes into the master branch:
> https://github.com/boostorg/beast/compare/master...develop
> 
> This resolves the mentioned issue with building Beast documentation on
> Windows platforms.

Yes, please.

— Marshall

> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM Mohammad Nejati [ashtum]
> <ashtumashtum_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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