On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Niall Douglas
On 7 Aug 2016 at 20:42, Rene Rivera wrote:
Please report any problems sooner rather than later. So that we can try and address them before it's took late.
Firstly thank you for making this happen. Thanks for this kind of work is insufficiently given at Boost.
[1] <https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/ snapshots/master/> [2] https://bintray.com/boostorg/master/snapshot#files
I appreciate that both URLs have "snapshot" in their name, but I am uncomfortable with the way the filename is named as if it is a release. I think this will lead to people getting confused that a snapshot archive which may be very buggy is a release archive. That will undoubtedly lead to bug reports here for a "release" which never happened.
Can you build into the archive name something like this pattern: boost_1_62_0_snapshot_201608090906.zip?
This seems like a great idea to me. I agree that the current pattern may lead to confusion.
I would also advocate spamming "snapshot" into various files in the distro e.g. docs, release notes etc.
I disagree that the docs contained should be changed. Aside from the archive name, the contents should match bit-for-bit with what will eventually be released. Tom