Just following the documentation of 'README.md', the call to 'configure' fails in the release version.
p230198@fwn-biol-132-102:~/GitHubs$ git clone https://github.com/molpopgen/fwdpp.git
Cloning into 'fwdpp'...
remote: Counting objects: 4626, done.
remote: Total 4626 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (4626/4626), 4.14 MiB | 1.48 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2881/2881), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
p230198@fwn-biol-132-102:~/GitHubs$ cd fwdpp/
p230198@fwn-biol-132-102:~/GitHubs/fwdpp$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/home/p230198/GitHubs/fwdpp/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/home/p230198/GitHubs/fwdpp/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features by default... no
checking whether g++ supports C++11 features with -std=c++11... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking boost/container/vector.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/container/vector.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/container/vector.hpp... yes
checking boost/container/list.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/container/list.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/container/list.hpp... yes
checking boost/test/unit_test.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/test/unit_test.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/test/unit_test.hpp... yes
checking boost/pool/pool_alloc.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/pool/pool_alloc.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/pool/pool_alloc.hpp... yes
checking boost/unordered_set.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/unordered_set.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/unordered_set.hpp... yes
checking boost/functional/hash.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/functional/hash.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/functional/hash.hpp... yes
checking Sequence/SimDataIO.hpp usability... no
checking Sequence/SimDataIO.hpp presence... no
checking for Sequence/SimDataIO.hpp... no
configure: error: Sequence/SimDataIO.hpp not found. libsequence (www.molpopgen.org) >= 1.7.8 required.