I asked on IRC and was told that our targeted boost version is 1.48. There had been some minor dificulties with some of my commits recently because I was using boost 1.56, so I thought it would be best to use the officially targeted version. Now I'm using boost version 1.48 (from boost version control), and the project doesn't compile using it due to a bug in boost that produces a narrowing warning. We treat that warning as an error.
The fact that our gnucash/trunk doesn't compile under the targeted boost version suggests that nobody's using that version. The reason I've heard for why we target an old version is because Debian stable has this version in their repo. I surmise that the thought process is something like: most people who might want to compile gnucash will use Debian to do so, or something along those lines. I also surmise, since the project doesn't work with boost 1.48, that nobody's doing that. I have two concerns: 1) We should seriously consider what version of boost we target, and 2) I would like to be able to compile the project again :-) 1) doesn't mean that we should change our boost target, but that we should *use* it for development and production! If we target version 1.48, and I develop with 1.56 and commit, and we ship based on 1.52, we're asking for trouble. Personally, I recommend targetting 1.56 for the following reasons: It is the most mature, it is the first version of boost using their git repo, people familiar with cutting-edge Boost will be at home, you won't find yourself reading "too modern" documentation when researchng Boost. Answering objections: it's *dead* simple to build...like two commands! It takes a bit, but very, very simple. I don't really care which version we use, but I am quite convinced about picking some version and *using* it. 2) I'm not good enough with autotools to figure out how to add -Wno-error=narrowing (or whatever needs to happen here) to my particular TU (src/lib-qof/qof/guid.cpp), any suggestions? Thanks! In Christ, Aaron Laws _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
