Re: [boost] Boost.Compute broken in 1.86.0 because of UUID changes, 1.86.1?

Boris Kolpackov wrote:

Peter Dimov via Boost writes:

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Because Boost.Compute (boost/compute/detail/sha1.hpp) uses an implementation detail of Boost.UUID (boost/uuid/detail/sha1.hpp), and because I changed the implementation to fix an endianness issue, now causes a compile error in 1.86.0

Any sense why this was not detected (e.g., by CI) when the change was made or during pre-release testing? It seems to me compiling any translation unit that included would have picked this up, no?

It would have, but no such translation unit was compiled by anyone before the release went out. There's no CI that runs the entire Boost test suite (that would take many hours) but even if there were, Boost.Compute's tests require OpenCL and automatically disable themselves when it's not present. This is why, in principle, we do a beta release, to catch these issues before the real release, but it doesn't seem to be effective.