Re: [Boost-users] [1.55.0] Release candidate 2 available

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [1.55.0] Release candidate 2 available
From: Jeff Flinn (Jeffrey.Flinn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-03 19:00:08

On 11/3/2013 6:05 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:
>
> On Nov 3, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:lists_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]
>> <mailto:mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>>
>>     RC2 files for 1.55.0 are available at
>>     http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out
>>     to SourceForge.
>>
>>     The files (and associated md5s) are:
>>             93780777cfbf999a600f62883bd54b17
>>      *boost_1_55_0_rc2.tar.gz
>>             d6eef4b4cacb2183f2bf265a5a03a354
>>      *boost_1_55_0_rc2.tar.bz2
>>             8aca361a4713a1f491b0a5e33fee0f1f        *boost_1_55_0_rc2.zip
>>             4e5bbc15fc8c80df8be428f8a5b5a823        *boost_1_55_0_rc2.7z
>>
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>
>>     -- The release managers
>>
>>
>> When is the release expected? (How long do we have to try building?)
>
> We try to ship an RC on Wednesday, then release on Monday.
> If there are no problems found in this RC, I expect we'll release on
> Friday or Saturday.

Serialization still fails to build on VS2013. This is due to tickets 
#9279/#8750 not being merged to release from trunk. Robert sent me a 
direct email saying "See my previous post on this thread to see why 
we're stuck here." but I've not been able to figure out to what he's 
referring.

Jeff