Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.72.0 Release Candidate 1

5 Dec 2019


      On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:01 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:23 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost
mailto:boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Not a suggestion for 1.72, but we could probably simplify
On 2019-12-05 19:48, Marshall Clow wrote:
pre-releases
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naming to just RCn without betas. I.e. we'd have 4-5 RCs instead of
RC
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betas and RCs.
The reason that we have betas is that some external folks (like linux
distros) trigger on that.
They ignore boost until they see a beta release, then they start testing
against that; knowing that a release is imminent.
I assume, they trigger on RCs too, right?
Not that I've seen; no.

-- Marshall