Centos focuses on being ultra-stable, so all of centos' packages are very old. I think centos 6 is still using the 2.6 linux kernel. Thanks, Leon
On Sat, 2017-09-02 at 14:36 -0700, Sumit Bhardwaj wrote: > Sounds good. I didn't realize Centos 7 was that far behind. > > Thanks, > Sumit > > On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash@kobaltw > it.be> > wrote: > > > On zaterdag 2 september 2017 09:35:17 CEST Sumit Bhardwaj wrote: > > > Some time back, John had asked if we can move our Boost > > > dependency to > > > > 1.54 > > > or above so we can use Boost::log. I wanted to check back to see > > > if we > > > > are > > > at a point where we can move Boost from 1.53 which is where we > > > have it > > > > now. > > > > > > For reference, Fedora 22 shipped on May 26, 2015 with Boost > > > version 1.58. > > > Fedora 26 has version 1.63 and Boost's latest version is 1.65. > > > > > > > Fedora is not a very good reference to determine the lower limit of > > package > > versions. It generally is very close to upstream. > > > > The distros to check are the long-term supported ones: RHEL/Centos, > > Ubuntu > > LTS, Debian stable,... > > > > For Ubuntu we currently still have to support 14.04LTS (Trusty), > > because > > that's what our test environment on Travis uses. That platform > > however is > > ok. > > It has boost 1.54 and 1.55 is available as well. > > > > Debian stable was at 1.55 last time I checked. > > > > RHEL/Centos 7 unfortunately are only at boost 1.53. There are ways > > to get > > more > > recent versions of boost there, but that would mean either building > > from > > scratch or configuring a foreign repository. If we require that we > > essentially > > state we're no longer supporting RHEL/Centos 7. > > > > I'm inclined not to do that and stick with 1.53 instead. > > > > Regards, > > > > Geert > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
