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From: Mohammad Nejati [ashtum] (ashtumashtum_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-04-06 13:49:15
Hello Marshal,
I'd like to merge the following changes into the master branch:
https://github.com/boostorg/beast/compare/master...develop
This resolves the mentioned issue with building Beast documentation on
Windows platforms.
Thanks
On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM Mohammad Nejati [ashtum]
<ashtumashtum_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> > Beast appears to have some documentation that is far too long for windows
> to support working with. The maximum path length for anything on windows is
> 260 chars. This file name is already 231 chars
>
> Thanks for reporting this. It seems that Beast CI doesn't build
> documentation on Windows platforms, and we hadn't noticed the issue.
> I'm already working on a fix.
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 7:10 PM Tom Kent via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 1:31 PM Marshall Clow via Boost <
> > boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > > The first release candidates for the 1.85.0 release are now available at:
> > > <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.85.0/source/>
> > >
> > > The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
> > >
> > > de84c538aaadf2388362e006d73d0be783541288d87a9ef68e906995efc2148d
> > > boost_1_85_0_rc1.tar.gz
> > > dd8baccd0b5ca534ad3717a07b426391fe6d49b6b84bf07d10e72792a5d1ba10
> > > boost_1_85_0_rc1.7z
> > > 289ab7784b9297e13938876f698ced91f734f9a80f91099d35803b78d15c0210
> > > boost_1_85_0_rc1.tar.bz2
> > > 84c35ef72efde30725de7bca8ccf399cd8d205a0d5b249465cf86c818291b7b7
> > > boost_1_85_0_rc1.zip
> > >
> > >
> > > As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the
> > > candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both
> > > success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
> > >
> > > -- The Release managers
> > >
> >
> > This contains a serious failure on windows that wasn't present in the beta.
> >
> > Beast appears to have some documentation that is far too long for windows
> > to support working with. The maximum path length for anything on windows is
> > 260 chars. This file name is already 231 chars:
> > boost__asio__traits__query_static_constexpr_member_lt__beast__test__immediate_executor_comma__Property_comma__typename_enable_if_lt__std__is_convertible_lt__Property_comma__execution__blocking_t__gt___value__gt___type__gt_.html
> >
> > With the minimum possible length to the boost directory (drive letter plus
> > a single character where it would be more reasonable to have something like
> > D:\boost_1_85_0), we're already at 263 characters.
> > D:\b/libs\beast\doc\html\beast\ref\boost__asio__traits__query_static_constexpr_member_lt__beast__test__immediate_executor_comma__Property_comma__typename_enable_if_lt__std__is_convertible_lt__Property_comma__execution__blocking_t__gt___value__gt___type__gt_.html
> >
> > It is true that for some programs, the windows path length limit can be
> > disabled, but there are many tools that this doesn't work for, so it needs
> > to be fixed before this release can go out.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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