Re: [Boost-users] [1.35.0] Release Candidate 3 available

From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-28 13:22:15

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:37:32 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:

> See http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
> 
> For this release candidate the naming is exactly the same as it will be
> in the final release. Unless a showstopper emerges, these exact files
> will become the final release.
> 
> Before declaring the release done, we need to verify that none of the
> four package files is corrupt and installs without error. I'm starting
> to do that now. I encourage others to also look for showstoppers, and
> report results on the developer or user lists.
> 
> If no showstoppers surface by 9 AM tomorrow morning, US Eastern time,
> I'll declare 1.35.0 done, create the tag, and push the files out to
> Sourceforge.

Everything ran properly using configure && make check on Ubuntu 7.10. 

Serialization issues:

http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1711
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1725

At least the tests should be updated to show proper workarounds if a new 
feature doesn't work properly across popular compilers (1711). I am not 
using the bleeding edge (g++ 4.1 - bleeding is 4.3?).

I leave it up to you to decide the showstopping-ness of it all but the 
tests will fail (and so will code that tries to mimic the tests) on a lot 
of machines. Robert pinged Dave about the issue but I haven't heard 
anything more.

Besides these two things, for some reason the doc files have the 
executable bits set on Linux which is strange, but not a real problem. 
This might be caused by packaging on Windows.

Very good release, I think. I especially like the Boost Book 
documentation :-)

-- 
Sohail Somani
http://uint32t.blogspot.com