Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Beman Dawes Sent: 06 April 2015 14:53 To: Boost Developers List Subject: Re: [boost] [1.58.0] Release candidates available

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:

We need to start asking RC testers to use --build-type=complete

--Beman

Why isn't this the default?

If you search back through email history you'd find that it used to be the default. But was changed as doing complete was: rarely what end users wanted, used up gobs of disk space, and made the build take a really long time (there might be other reasons but I don't remember ATM). -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail