[arch-general] Boost

[Loui Chang]

On Fri 18 Jun 2010 11:52 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote:
> > On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> >> On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote:
> >>> Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded
> >>> from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the
> >>> latest 1.43.0.
> >>>
> >>> I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something
> >>> wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know
> >>> there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason?
> >>
> >>  From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the
> >> boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from
> >> either side.
> >>
> >> So we either update boost or break encfs...
> >
> > encfs devs released a new version which works with > 1.41.
> >
> > yesterday i built 1.43 but the splitting is holding me back. It has a
> > very annoying build system and until now we have in the bugtracker one
> > which is copying files around from a directory to another. FS#19749
>
> What's the issue here though? We have a working split package and
> everyone is happy? Bjam is a crappy build system but until CMake is more
> actively maintained by Boost (last boost-cmake release was 1.41) it'll
> have to do. Boost is an important part of C++ development, it should not
> go without update in Arch.

Wow, this is kind of depressing. Why would some package in community
block an established library from being upgraded in extra?