Re: [Boost-users] [1.56.0] Beta 1 Available

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [1.56.0] Beta 1 Available
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-18 20:34:15

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Boost release 1.56.0 beta 1 is now available from SourceForge
>
> See http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.56.0.beta.1/
>
> This release contains 2 new libraries:
> * Align: Memory alignment functions, allocators, and adaptors, from Glen
> Fernandes.
> * Type_Index: Runtime/Compile time copyable type info, from Antony
> Polukhin.
>
> Modularization
> Boost version control has migrated to a system using git submodules. This
> shouldn't make too much of a difference to users, although the directory
> structure is now a bit different.
>
> Parts of some libraries have been moved into different modules, and
> several new modules have been extracted from existing code. All header
> paths should remain the same.
>
> The new modules are:
> * Assert: Customizable assert macros. Maintained by Peter Dimov.
>  * Core: Core utilities used by other libraries, with minimal
> dependencies. Maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes and Andrey Semashev.
>  * Lexical_Cast: General literal text conversions, such as an int
> represented a string, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.
>  * Throw_Exception: A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from
> Boost libraries, from Emil Dotchevski.
> * Winapi: Windows API declarations without <windows.h>, for internal Boost
> use.
>
> For details of what's in the release, see
> http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_56_0.html.
> Note that the links to files on this web page are for the final release -
> use the SourceForge link above to get the beta files.
>
> Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you
> encounter.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- The Boost Release Team
>
>
Windows Binaries for 1.56.0 - Beta 1 are now available on sourceforge as
well.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.56.0.beta.1/

Tom