Re: [boost] [release] 1.64.0 please test master snapshot..

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 5:31 AM, Mateusz Loskot via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

On 17 March 2017 at 10:00, John Maddock via Boost wrote:

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Personally I would prefer 14.10 (aka 1410) because of purely selfish reasons. As it would mean Boost Predef already says that "14.10" is the version. But otherwise I don't care what version number it is. I'm

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exhausted from dealing with VS version numbers. Which means..

1. For the beta the version is "14.10", aka "1410". 2. And we'll apply the Boost Config patch accordingly. 3. After beta everyone can fight over what the "real" version number should be. 4. Apply changes after enough people agree. And if that's fast enough.. We can do another beta. Other we just wait for the release to have the change.

Where is 14.10 coming from? In the IDE and vcxproj files I only see 141.

Nod.

I asked about this on the PR and got no reply, so let's try again here...

We have history here - of using 3 figure version names, that includes VC7.1 which had the "71" suffix, IMO the trailing zero is at best superfluous, and at worst confusing. We should be consistent both with what we've done before, and with what MSVC reports.

Speaking of consistency, perhaps these two could be unified instead of adding up to the forest of names [1]

bootstrap.bat vc1410 b2 toolset=msvc-14.10

I'm not opposed to that, but those have historically been different. bootstrap.bat vc14 b2 toolset=msvc-14.0 Tom