On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Haïkel Guémar <karlthe...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Le 29/09/2013 05:44, Dave Johansen a écrit : > > I just noticed that the boost141 package had been previously available > in Fedora, but it has since been removed ( > https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5291 ). I'm not familiar with the > recent changes in Boost, but is the API stable enough to support a package > to build on EL 5/6 and Fedora? > Thanks, > Dave > > > > No, you shouldn't assume that. > Some Boost libraries often break the API in subtle ways (like changing the > whole exception hierarchy), or may provide different versions of the API > (ie: filesystem provides only API v2 in 1.41 and since 1.50 only API v3). > You also have to check which libraries are used which may set the lower > version required to build your package. > > You may have to provide a newer boost in EPEL, or patch your package to > compile under both versions. > It definitely looks like Boost is not a stable API ( http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/boost.html ). Getting newer versions added to the EPEL is somewhat hard but doable, but I think that the biggest issue is that it creates a moving target for EL developers. The purpose of EL is supposed to be stability and consistency for production environments, so what's wrong with having a boost141 package in Fedora to allow to a piece of software to target a known Boost version? To me this seems like the simplest solution for packages that want to support both EL and Fedora.
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