On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 02:17:26PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 01:49:02PM +0200, Peter Kümmel wrote: >>> In a branch I've updated to boost 1.36: >>> >>> http://www.lyx.org/trac/log/lyx-devel/branches/personal/kuemmel/boost_1_36 >>> >>> Shouldn't we also update trunk? I know we are in the release candidate phase >>> but I don't think it would be critical, because there was only a trivial >>> patch >>> of the lyx code, thus the only errors which can occur are: >>> >>> 1. boost introduces new bugs >>> 2. our wrong usage of boost becomes visible >>> >>> both is both not very likely. And we could do a extra rc round. >> >> What would be the benefit? >> >> Andre' > > > boost 1.35 doesn't support the actual msvc compiler, and 1.35 always gives > a warning on windows when compiling regexp.
MSVC 2008? Also in the subset we need? Actually I would not change boost versions so short before a release. We had bad luck with boost::fs once, and it's basically irreversible once it shows up on a major distribution. Andre'
