Re: VS2022 release date is Nov 8

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-27 12:28:51

On 10/27/21 05:10, Gavin Lambert via Boost wrote:
> On 26/10/2021 08:22, Peter Dimov wrote:
>> The Visual Studio 2022 (msvc-14.3) release date is Nov 8, which is
>> right in
>> the middle of our beta master freeze (Nov 3 - Nov 10). Since VS2022 is
>> now RC2, which means that it won't change much if at all, we probably
>> need to start testing our libraries with it now, so that the issues
>> are ironed
>> out before 1.78 beta.
> 
> This is not the first time that an MSVC release has conflicted with
> Boost's release schedule -- it seems likely that Microsoft's release
> date targets were chosen with similar logic to Boost's.
> 
> Would it make sense to permanently shift the Boost calendar target to
> reduce the risk of future such conflicts?

IMHO, Boost doesn't need to align its schedule to release of any
particular compiler. We don't do that for any other compiler anyway.