Sounds good. I didn't realize Centos 7 was that far behind. ​Thanks, Sumit​
On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Geert Janssens <[email protected]> wrote: > On zaterdag 2 september 2017 09:35:17 CEST Sumit Bhardwaj wrote: > > Some time back, John had asked if we can move our Boost dependency to > 1.54 > > or above so we can use Boost::log. I wanted to check back to see if we > are > > at a point where we can move Boost from 1.53 which is where we have it > now. > > > > For reference, Fedora 22 shipped on May 26, 2015 with Boost version 1.58. > > Fedora 26 has version 1.63 and Boost's latest version is 1.65. > > > Fedora is not a very good reference to determine the lower limit of package > versions. It generally is very close to upstream. > > The distros to check are the long-term supported ones: RHEL/Centos, Ubuntu > LTS, Debian stable,... > > For Ubuntu we currently still have to support 14.04LTS (Trusty), because > that's what our test environment on Travis uses. That platform however is > ok. > It has boost 1.54 and 1.55 is available as well. > > Debian stable was at 1.55 last time I checked. > > RHEL/Centos 7 unfortunately are only at boost 1.53. There are ways to get > more > recent versions of boost there, but that would mean either building from > scratch or configuring a foreign repository. If we require that we > essentially > state we're no longer supporting RHEL/Centos 7. > > I'm inclined not to do that and stick with 1.53 instead. > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
