Thomas Witt wrote:
FWIW the decision to use v2 was made a long time ago.
The decision was made AFTER the branch for release. When this branch was made it was explicitly stated that only bug fixes should be commited to the release branch. This admonition was ignored when the decision to commit to v2 was made, which was not a bug fix but a feature enhancement. I'm sure this opened the door to more subtle feature enancements whch has resulted in a release branch lifetime of 10 months rather than say one month. Honestly, it hasn't hurt me personally. I've refrained from commiting anything other than bug fixes to the release branch. I doubt I've made more than 10 alterations in the relase branch since it was announced. It is a pity though that when 1.34 comes out, it will be a year away before the features/fixes now in the head appear in the next release.
Thomas
PS: What's the status with respect to outstanding serialization regressions. Is there anything I can do to help get these fixed?
I've concluded that all ounstanding serializaton regressions are not addressable with changes from within the serialization library. So anything not passing now shuold be marked as "expected failure" These last failures are one of the following: the Jamfiles depend on the toolset name to avoid running tests which will fail on systems without support for wide character i/o. CW 8.3 passes/fails and switches back and forth without any changes on my part. hp acc - has recently started to pass when a user sent me a patch to the test header. The current failures suggest something amiss with the testing environment. a couple of demos - fast_archive, portable archive don't pass when auto-linking is used. They conflict with auto-link in a fundamental way so can't really be fixed. I'll add A few borland 5.82 tests fail because they depend upon features in other libraries (mpl, variant) that fail with ths compiler. I guess these last should be noted in expected failures - I was hoping to see the failures disappear as thier root causes were addressed. Robert Ramey