pgiffuni commented on PR #194: URL: https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pull/194#issuecomment-1890767770
@Pilot-Pirx Thanks so much for finishing the bits for Windows. Since it's getting so long to merge(!), let me provide some motivation: We currently make [limited use](https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Boost) of boost, so the boost update will provide some fixes and performance enhancements, but perhaps more important is that it provides functionality that modern languages would regularly provide and that are currently unavailable in our older C++ environment. AOO is about 80% C++ code and it's currently stuck in an older version of that language supported by a MSVC 2008. Keeping a too old version of boost will make it increasingly difficult to compile AOO on newer compilers; putting up a too recent version of boost will make it imposible to build AOO with the older compilers. The 1.64 version from 2017 seems to be in the right place for all the supported platforms/compilers. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
