Tom Kent wrote:

Build support for VS 2019 RC (msvc-14.2) is on develop in boost build. Do we want to merge that to master for the release?

I think we do. 1.70 and 2019 will release at about the same time.

-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Peter Dimov via Boost Sent: 14 March 2019 14:25 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Peter Dimov Subject: Re: [boost] MSVC 2019 and 1.70 beta

Tom Kent wrote:

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Build support for VS 2019 RC (msvc-14.2) is on develop in boost build. Do we want to merge that to master for the release?

Taking all release dates into account, I think that the right thing to do would be to release Beta 2 with 2019 support, so that people can give it a go. There's still time before the 1.70 release for another beta, but this creates extra work for the release manager, so it would be his call.

The result of https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html for 14.2RC look good and green enough to me to make it very useful to merge to master before the release (with sympathy for the long-suffering release manager). With Microsoft providing so frequent updates, I suspect that any changes from the first VS 14.2 release will be small, and anyway will be followed by lots more quick bug fixes discovered by user's 'testing'. Getting master from GIT is different enough to deter many users, so we will please more people by releasing Boost with VS 2019 support. My two-pennyworth. Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal UK LA8 8AB +44 (0) 1539 561830

AMDG On 3/15/19 8:32 AM, Marshall Clow via Boost wrote:

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 9:21 AM Paul A. Bristow via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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The result of https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/summary.html for 14.2RC look good and green enough to me to make it very useful to merge to master before the release (with sympathy for the long-suffering release manager).

If people think that the VS 2019 is ready to release, then I have no objection to putting it into the 1.70 release. However, I'd appreciate it if people kept an eye on the CI results and the test runners between now and the 3rd.

I just merged the changes. In Christ, Steven Watanabe

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 12:58, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:48 AM degski wrote:

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 10:25, Olaf van der Spek via Boost <

boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

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Is 2019 not properly supported yet?

It's not released yet

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[i.e. it's a moving target],

It's RC, so it's not a moving target.

There could be RC2, RC3, etc etc ... I don't agree.

You think boost should support RC's? degski -- *"Big boys don't cry" - **Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman*

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:41 PM degski wrote:

There could be RC2, RC3, etc etc ...

Yes, and?

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I don't agree.

You think boost should support RC's?

Yes It's silly to ignore MSVC until it's released as GA / RTM / RTW / whatever. -- Olaf

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:37 PM degski wrote:

On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 14:17, Olaf van der Spek wrote:

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It's silly to ignore MSVC until it's released as GA / RTM / RTW / whatever.

No, it's not,

Why?

in the same sense that any question/problem arising from somebody using a Boost RC in production would be met by: "Install Release first."

If you want to reason by analogy, don't forget to include why you believe the two cases are equivalent.

Whether a Boost Release could/should be coordinated with a VC Release is a totally other question (Peter seems to raise that), though (I think it should).

IMO if you started preparing in December (after the preview release) probably no adjustments / coordination would've been needed. -- Olaf