Going up to 1.67 won't be possible, since 18.04 is estimated to be supported by KiCad until 2023 ( http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/). If anything, it might make sense to go to 1.59 now, and re-evaluate it farther in the v6 development (such as when the Python minimum version is also re-evaluated).
-Ian On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:49 PM Blair Bonnett <blair.bonn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently been playing with some features I'd like to add to KiCad > (will be able to submit a patch soon I hope). As part of this, I'm adding > some unit tests. I see that unit_test_utils.h within the qa has a number of > macros working around Boost pre-1.59, and there's some features introduced > in Boost 1.59 which would make my testing a lot cleaner. > > Currently, the main CMakeLists.txt specifies a minimum version of 1.54 for > Boost. This was released on 1 July 2013 [1]; incidentally, this was 18 > months before the formal release of C++14 (approved August 2014, released > December 2014) which is mandated in CMakeLists. > > I've done a quick survey of the versions of Boost in some of the larger > Linux distributions, with the results as follows: > > Arch: 1.69 [2] > Debian stable: 1.67 [3] > Debian oldstable: 1.62 [4] > Fedora 30 and 31: 1.69 [5] > openSUSE: 1.69 [6] > Ubuntu 19.04: 1.67 [7] > Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: 1.65 [8] > Linux Mint 19.2: based on Ubuntu 18.04, so 1.65 > > It's worth noting that Debian oldstable has KiCad 4.0.5 and Ubuntu 18.04 > LTS has KiCad 4.0.7, so I'd say there is no need to worry about targeting > them for KiCad 6. This presumably also means Linux Mint is using 4.0.7 and > is also not of concern. > > Based on this, from a Linux point-of-view I'd say its fairly safe to bring > the minimum Boost requirement up to 1.67 for KiCad 6. However, I'm not sure > what the Mac and Windows builders use -- they may require a lower version. > There may also be other reasons I've missed to keep an older version as the > minimum requirement. > > Thoughts? > > Blair > > [1] https://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_54_0.html > [2]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/boost/ > [3] https://packages.debian.org/buster/libboost-all-dev > [4] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libboost-all-dev > [5] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/boost > [6]: https://software.opensuse.org/package/boost-base > [7] https://packages.ubuntu.com/disco/libboost-all-dev > [8] https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libboost-all-dev > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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