on Thu Oct 30 2008, "Robert Ramey" <ramey-AT-rrsd.com> wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
Andrey Semashev has pulled together a number of patches to address backed-up date-time tickets. He has tested them on Linux and Windows. The arrangement was that Jeff Garland would look them over, but Jeff just isn't finding the time to do that.
<snip proposal>
* I'm willing to hold the release a few days; in aggregate this is an important set of overdue fixes to a major library so I'd like to see them go in this release.
Comments?
--Beman
I would disagree with this.
Holding up release to include changes for one library that should have been done some time ago is exactly the situation which has created so much problem in the past. Doing this will prevent benefits of the current release-ready branch on all the other libraries from users who need them now.
Release the current release-ready branch now.
Get the 1.38.0 process going now and put the date-time updates into that.
Robert Ramey
I think I responded too quickly before, and I agree with Robert. Isn't that the whole point of a quarterly release cycle? As soon as 1.37.0 is released, I am going to open a point-release branch where Andrey can check those changes in. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com