David Abrahams wrote:
At some point in the future we can reevaluate that. If we change over to CMake someday, perhaps testing will become so easy that a lot of resources are freed. Or maybe as we refine the quarterly release cycle, quarterly releases will become so automatic that we can divert resources to point releases occasionally. But not now.
That's fine with me, as long as we all understand that the new system where there is a single "release" branch does not accomodate point releases. Should we decide to start making point releases, we'll have to change the system again.
Anyway, maybe being able to tell people straight out that Boost doesn't do point releases will help explain things to the many people who have been asking how the current system can work.
I was wondering about this earlier today, what if we alternated point releases and full releases? We should as Beman says get the current system semi-automatic *first* of course! John.