"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> wrote in message news:cgh8lj$jgm$1@sea.gmane.org...
I would like to second that.
Two month ago I was told that I had to freeze any development yet another month ago. Now we still nowhere and I still couldn't move a finger. I understand that it may be caused by book preparation. But should we necessarily need to use namely this release?
Sorry for breaking into this thread as I'm not a boost developer, but IMHO something seems really wrong with the SCM if you need to wait two months doing nothing. Why not branch for release right now, let people fix the issues on the release branch and merge back to the main trunk when it's complete (IIUC you use the main trunk as the active development line). This would let people who are working on new or updated functionality to proceed on the main trunk. I assume that the projects that are being prepared for the 1.32 release will not simultaneously be worked on in the main trunk - which could cause some pain when merging back. Even if so, a decent SCM tool would probably make things easy enough. Has anyone considered using Perforce instead of CVS? I believe there's a possibility to get a free server license for open source software (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/opensource-faq.html) development - don't know if the terms apply to boost. I've found Perforce easy to use and administer, fast, exists for about as many platforms as cvs (perhaps more on the server side) and the branching stuff is really, really smooth. Support is also outstanding, but I don't know the support terms for open source servers. IIRC FreeBSD (or some other BSD variety) uses Perforce as their main development platform and basically publishes the results to CVS to make things easier for CVS users. I know there's also subversion, but that's pretty immature yet (no flame wars please), and still haven't implemented atomic changelists(?). For the sake of order, I'll admit I have no personal experience using svn. (And, no, I'm not a Perforce sales representative - I just happen to like the darn thing ;-) // Johan