Subject: Re: [boost] 1.59 release notes don't mention new property_tree::json_parser
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir.prus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-09-11 15:08:35


On 11-Sep-15 12:14 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 9/10/2015 12:26 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 10 September 2015 at 07:47, Viktor Sehr wrote:
>>> Same thing happened to me, suddenly my application stopped to work. I
>>> really think it should accept comments.
>>
>> A parser option to allow/disallow comments would be nice, but at a
>> minimum the breaking change should be documented in the release notes,
>> not buried away in git commit logs.
>
> I totally agree with this. Any breaking change to a library should go into the release notes at the least. IMO it should
> also be emphatically mentioned in the docs of that library also.

If anybody in this thread can produce a wording for release notes, and create a pull request for website, that would
be great. Alternatively, just product a wording, and I can get it included.

Obviously, as far as library documentation and support for JSON comments, you'd need to ping library maintainer.

Thanks,
Volodya