In article <2c8df206af943147929336f60d8a4bea@twcny.rr.com>, Howard Hinnant <hinnant@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
On Aug 23, 2005, at 4:50 AM, Ben Artin wrote:
I consider this a pretty serious error, and that I think we should understand how it came to pass.
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<shrug> bugs happen. Bugs of this nature won't be eradicated unless you outlaw dropping into assembly (and I don't recommend that).
Sure, bugs happen. My main point here is that we should make sure we learn something from them -- or, more importantly, that we should learn something from them *before* our users learn that Mac OS X releases of boost are not thoroughly tested.
Perhaps an extended public beta of boost releases (all compressed and easy to download) might help?
Can someone explain exactly why this wasn't caught in unit tests? I am not sure I understand why we missed this, but I am pretty sure it's important that we try to avoid this happening in the future. Ben -- I changed my name: <http://periodic-kingdom.org/People/NameChange.php>