>Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> At 10:26 AM 7/15/2003, David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> >Dominique Devriese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> >>> In general, they are released when all of Boost is ready. I think
>> >>> it would be a *really* good idea for Boost to do at least one minor
>> >>> version release shortly after any major version release. Now that
>> >>> we have a reasonable testing strategy it should be relatively easy.
>> >>> Boost 1.30.0 went out with several bugs IIRC.
>> >>
>> >>> Until we get our act together, I would suggest you supply people
>> >>> with a Boost patch. Use "BOOST_DEDUCED_TYPENAME" instead of
>> >>> "typename" so you don't break VC6. Sorry,
>> >>
>> >> A fixed release would be great indeed. In the mean time, I'm going
>to >> >> provide the patch as you suggest, although it's far from a perfect >> >> solution of course.. >> > >> >What does everybody think about doing a 1.30.1 release "RSN?" >> >> What would be the advantage of doing a 1.30.1 release rather than a >> 1.31.0 release? > >When we released 1.30.0, despite extensive pre-release testing, it >went out with several prominent showstopper bugs. Don't you think >we'll make the same mistake for 1.31.0?
No, of course not. There is only one new library ready for 1.31.0. We've essentially been working on 1.31.0 for several months. A huge amount of effort has gone into finding and fixing bugs. The iterator adaptor changes have temporarily obscured the progress, but it is there nonetheless.
> Also, AFAICT 1.30.1 can go out much, much sooner.
Hum... You must be seeing some way of getting a 1.30.1 release out that eludes me. What would go into 1.30.1? There have probably been hundreds of changes to CVS since the 1.30.0 tag. How would we distinguish what should or should not be merged into a 1.30.1 branch? Who will make the decisions? Who will do the testing? Who will act as release manager? How will we prevent a 1.30.1 release from delaying a 1.31.0 release?
--Beman
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