On Fri 18 Jun 2010 11:52 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > On 18.06.2010 11:38, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > > On 06/18/2010 09:30 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > >> On 18/06/10 16:24, Daniel Bumke wrote: > >>> Does anyone know what's going on with boost? It seems it was downgraded > >>> from 1.42.0 to 1.41.0 a while back, and hasn't been updated to the > >>> latest 1.43.0. > >>> > >>> I was going to build the latest on my machine, but if there's something > >>> wrong with it I might hold off or go with the older version. I know > >>> there was some talk about splitting it up; is that the reason? > >> > >> From memory 1.42 broke encfs. The encfs developers blame boost, the > >> boost developers blame encfs, so nothing was done in recent updates from > >> either side. > >> > >> So we either update boost or break encfs... > > > > encfs devs released a new version which works with > 1.41. > > > > yesterday i built 1.43 but the splitting is holding me back. It has a > > very annoying build system and until now we have in the bugtracker one > > which is copying files around from a directory to another. FS#19749 > > What's the issue here though? We have a working split package and > everyone is happy? Bjam is a crappy build system but until CMake is more > actively maintained by Boost (last boost-cmake release was 1.41) it'll > have to do. Boost is an important part of C++ development, it should not > go without update in Arch. Wow, this is kind of depressing. Why would some package in community block an established library from being upgraded in extra?
