[arch-general] Boost

[Ionuț Bîru]

On 06/18/2010 01:56 PM, Loui Chang wrote:
> 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?
>

until now yes, from now own NO. :D

expect new boost in testing + todo today

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Ionuț