On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 06:47:55PM -0400, Sage Weil wrote: > Hi all, > > We'd really like to use the latest boost, mainly so that we can use > small_vector in a zillion places and avoid extra memory allocations. The > distros, as always, are behind. From a distribution perspective, LESS static building is better, so this proposal is a concern, but I do realize that the Gentoo/ArchLinux/CoreOS perspective is very different than the Ubuntu LTS perspective. What's the state of having a more-up-to-date Boost in things like Ubuntu backports, so that you don't have the overhead of having to maintain your own boost packages or statically link? If support for statically linking a newer Boost is brought it, please, please keep dynamic boost builds as fully supported, for distributions that can keep up to date. As a bonus, at some point in the future, when the slower distributions catch up, you might be able to escape the static again. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Developer, Infrastructure Lead, Foundation Trustee E-Mail : robbat2@xxxxxxxxxx GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
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