On Jun 21, 2018, at 09:20, Michael Dickens wrote:
> See < https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56294 >. > > Boost 1.67.0 has significant changes in the way it handles time computations > that are not ABI or API backward compatible with any prior Boost. > > I think all of the ports I maintain are multi-Boost compatible, and I've seen > updates to others I don't maintain. But, there are some 234 ports ("port echo > depends:boost") that depend on Boost, and the ones I know work maybe account > for 40 of those ... > > Thus, something that would be helpful / useful would be to use the patch > provided in the ticket above & update to the new Boost, then go through the > dependent ports & see if they install & if not then open a ticket for each > that doesn't. It'll be time-consuming and tedious (at least for me it would), > but that way we'll have a handle on how much work it'll be to do the update. > I think if we can hit 75% that either work are can be easily updated to work > (via a version update or a known-working patch), then we're hitting the > threshold for pushing this Boost update. > > Note that these are my opinions as a co-maintainer of the port; I don't speak > for the rest of MacPorts nor the other co-maintainer. Sounds good to me. > Boost updates are tricky, and impact lots of ports, so we have to be careful > to test them out well. > > Hope this is useful. - MLD > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, at 8:52 AM, S. L. Garwood wrote: >> Any hope of seeing boost 1.67? >> If not and I set it up myself will maintainer give me a hand getting it >> ready for ‘official’ port?
