On 02/14/17 18:17, Bo Persson via Boost wrote:
On 2017-02-14 14:50, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
Yes, it does, because the final release may be significantly different from the pre-released versions. It is not unheard of entire features being removed or modified in the final release.
We are not taking about about preview versions from last summer, we are now at RC5, 3 weeks from the formal release.
Pre-release is pre-release, however you name it.
You might want to consider that VS2017 is already the default download at Microsoft's https://www.visualstudio.com/
Frankly, I couldn't find what version they're offering to download on that page. If it's a pre-release version, that seems like a poor choice of a default to me.
And people start to wonder why Boost is so far behind...
Right... Another one of those doomsday prophets.