Sebastian Redl wrote:
Robert Ramey wrote:
If the HEAD is always maintained in "releaseable" state you won't want to do such a thing. Of course you could branch from a previous version - but in practice I wouldn't expect one to want to.
I would. Especially if you're going to stop support for old compilers, you will want a releasable branch for each of the old Boost versions that were the last to support a specific compiler. You'll also want to be able to backport bugfixes to that old version (or check in backports that other people do for you), which means that you'll want to make point releases for these old versions. I think this is a prerequisite to dropping support for compilers that still are in use, like VC6.
OK in that case you would - but we're not doing any of that now. Robert Ramey