Re: [jamboost] Jam pre-built executables out-of-date?

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-09 11:04:07

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
To: <jamboost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: [jamboost] Jam pre-built executables out-of-date?

> For the Boost 1.28.0 release, it would be nice if the pre-built Jam
> executables we link to were up-to-date.
>
> Looking at http://boost.sourceforge.net/jam-executables/ it appears all
of
> the Unix/Linux subdirectories contain recent (May 2, 2002) files, but the
> others are all dated November, 2001 or January, 2002.
>
> Who is responsible for keeping these files up-to-date?

Boost 1.27.0 is incompatible with the more-recent Jam executables.

The current CVS state is probably not compatible with any of the
currently-posted executables.

The Jam built from source in CVS is backwards-compatible with Boost 1.27.0,
fortunately ;-)

We are aware of this, and planning to do an update of all the executables
just as soon as you branch for release.

-Dave