On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:20:21 -0800, Robert Ramey wrote
My motivation for preferring the latest release is that I would like to upload something that I can expect to work and other people can test with a minimum amount of hassle. I'm mean I have enough problems with my own flakey ( er.. experimental) code with out adding in everyone else's.
I agree completely -- I have the same issue. Even though I work out of the cvs tree, I often don't update the other parts of boost for long periods of time...
So as things stand now I'm inclined to work to the 1.31.0 .
Makes sense -- I just switched back to 1.31 when when I ran into trouble.
Having said that, it seems to me the development tree is considered "experimental" where as I would prefer that it be considered "Candidate for Release" That is, I think code is uploaded without out being fully tested in one's local environment. I think this creates a chain reaction at release time. Its not that I think anyone is really wrong, just that I think things would be better if developer's were a little more conservative. (But then, I'm getting old, I think that about everybody)
No, I don't think there is alot of 'wild checking in' causing this issue. In my case, several compilers are usually checked before changes are checked-in -- but things still break. This is especially true with the old compilers -- some of them are just plain cranky. And not having all the compilers it sometimes takes some time to fix things since it is a 24 hour cycle between fix and test. Jeff