On Mar 25, 2005, at 8:33 PM, Martin Slater wrote:
Boost.Filesystem often has a similar problem - small fixes that could be made available sooner than waiting for the next release. Maybe some kind of public patch file or files for those who would like to apply them?
Maybe as releases are made they should be pushed off into a branch then any bug fixes applied to both the main line and the release branch. It would increases the testing load some but as the branch should not be modified very often maybe it would be possible to flag a change has been made and only run regressions if so. This way users can safely get all bug fixes applied to a release without fear that a major breaking change has been made.
We already have release branches so, for instance, we could branch a 1.32.1 off 1.32.0 to provide bug fixes. However, as you mention, we'd need support for the regression testing system and at this point we don't have it. We'll get there, I hope. Doug