on Fri Aug 29 2008, "Mat Marcus" <mat-lists-AT-emarcus.org> wrote:
For some of us the answer is not <shrug>. Are hotfixes really the way forward? Not to pick on filesystem, threads or xpressive, but hotfixes are a bit difficult to manage in a coporate environment. It's hard enough to get boost accepted/updated without having to defend against people who argue that it's too risky to use boost due to "inadequate quality control" e.g. "boost 1.35.0 didn't work out of the box (windows thread bugs, filesystem compilation errors, etc.), boost 1.36.0 doesn't work out of the box, and there are no dot-releases planned". It really helps if there is a perception of stable, high quality, official, numbered releases.
Hi Mat, With apologies for the sales message: my company's Enterprise Support program offers the closest possible equivalent of point releases for Boost. We might be able to help you. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com