Subject: Re: [boost] [quickbook] diagnosing a missing [endsect]?
From: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-22 18:35:39
On 22 March 2017 at 11:49, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Well currently, "b2 doc" would fail for everyone using Visual Studio
> 2013/2015/2017 or g++ 6. It would have failed for me had I not been using
> the ancient 8.0 as a default.
Then they file a bug report, and I fix it at a leisurely pace,
suggesting they use a binary from the last release that worked. It's
not ideal, but that's life for you.
> In general, and this is not directed at you personally, the point of testing
> develop against boostorg:develop is to catch such breaking changes as the
> current string_ref one early, before they reach the release. Downstream
> dependencies effectively serve as an integration test for lower-level
> libraries.
Travis is an awful mechanism for doing that as it only runs when
there's a commit to the submodule being tested, which might not be
regular. As it happens, the change to string_ref that caused this
issue was on the 13th of February, the last commit to quickbook before
you reported this was on the 12th of February.