Re: [Boost-users] [release] Boost 1.64.0 Beta 1

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [release] Boost 1.64.0 Beta 1
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-26 02:25:59

On 3/25/2017 8:02 AM, Rainer Deyke via Boost-users wrote:
>
> On 23.03.2017 15:11, Rene Rivera via Boost-users wrote:
>> Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you
>> encounter.
>
> I'm getting a lot of compile errors with Boost.Rational.  In particular,
> expressions in the form 'rational<int>(a, b)', where 'a' or 'b' are
> different integer types (both convertible to 'int'), no longer compile.
>
> This change appears neither in the release notes nor in the documentation.
>
>

Can you please give an example of some constructor which worked in 1.63 
not working in the 1.64 beta ?

There was a fix to rational based on floating point types not being 
allowed as integer types anymore which may be the cause of what you are 
seeing. I agree that some mention of this should have been put in the 
release notes.